Kubicki rejects AfD coalition but leaves door open for parliamentary votes
Wolfgang Kubicki, the Free Democratic Party's (FDP) leadership candidate, sees no issue with voting alongside the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in parliament.
"I don't recognize any firewall," he said in a podcast interview with the Funke Media Group. "I wouldn't support any AfD motion, but I also wouldn't make my own proposals dependent on whether the AfD might agree. If I did that—how stupid would that be?—I'd be handing them my entire agenda." Kubicki, however, ruled out forming a coalition with the AfD.
When asked whether he intended to build a new protest party, Kubicki replied, "Every party is, in a way, a protest party." But he had no plans to create a new one. The FDP, he insisted, was not dead—it simply needed to be revitalized. "And it needs to be done with confidence, not by constantly defining ourselves in opposition to others."
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