Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) – Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann attacked the AfD parliamentary group in the dispute over Russia policy with unusually clear words. “In reality you are nothing more than Putin’s lap dogs,” he called out to the parliamentary group in the state parliament on Wednesday – and received loud boos from there.
Only Russia’s President Vladimir Putin is responsible for the current serious crisis, nobody else, said Kretschmann. The head of government also defended Green Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock against criticism from the AfD for dealing with her Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov. The AfD presents itself as “the fifth wheel on an aggressor’s car”. That is upsetting. “I have no words for it.”
