FDP's Kubicki shuts down any alliance with far-right AfD in Germany
Our mission is to strengthen the political center and defend liberalism in all its breadth—not to shift it to the right, the European politician told newspapers of the Funke Media Group in their Friday editions. "Anyone who wants to push the FDP to the right is leading it to ruin," she said, quoting former Federal Justice Minister Marco Buschmann, also a member of the liberal party.
"The FDP has always been strong when it stood firm on its principles and values. There must be no doubt about that today," she warned. For liberals, she stressed, there can be no cooperation, no downplaying, and no strategic maneuvering with far-right extremists.
Her remarks came in response to statements by deputy party leader Wolfgang Kubicki, who is running for the FDP leadership. In an interview with the Funke newspapers' podcast My Toughest Decision, Kubicki dismissed the idea of a "firewall" against the far-right AfD: "It's not in the constitution, nor is it enshrined in law. I don't recognize any firewall. I won't avoid an event just because an AfD representative is there. I won't base my political decisions on whether the AfD might agree—I frankly don't care."
When pressed, Kubicki clarified that he would neither form a coalition with the AfD nor tolerate its support—and would not back any AfD proposal. However, he insisted he would not tailor his own initiatives to the AfD's potential approval. "If I did that, how stupid would that be? I'd be handing them my entire agenda," he argued.
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