Tuesday, February 11th, 2020

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AfD-Coup in Thüringen "Our members are ashamed of themselves," says Konstantin Kuhle the secretary-general of the FDP in the state of Lower Saxony, who is also a member of the Bundestag. "The FDP’s reputation as a centrist party is at stake." Kuhle received a police escort last week after vandals spraypainted the word "traitor" across the window of one of the FDP's offices in nearby Göttingen in which a picture of Kuhle hung. Elsewhere in Germany, demonstrators have occupied FDP offices. Several thousand people protested outside the party's headquarters in Berlin last week. "Hindenburg would have voted for the FDP," one placard read. Another asked, "Who betrayed us? The Free Democrats." In his "worst dreams," he never would have thought it possible "that serious doubts about a basic antifascist consensus in our party would arise," Kuhle said. Current Mood: awake (Comment on this)

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