FDP-Chef Christian Lindner has recommended his Thuringian party friend Thomas Kemmerich again, insistently, to dispense with a top candidate in the regional elections of 2021. To do this, he advise him with regard to his own Person and of his family, as well as “with a view to the Reputation of the FDP as a whole,” said Lindner on Sunday in the summer, the ZDF-show “Berlin interview”. “It’s not even the Person Kemmerich, but he has become a Symbol. And since it makes sense to take from the game.“
Kemmerich had with his election to the Prime Minister on 5. February caused outrage, because for the first time in Germany, the AfD votes in it. The 55-Year-old said three days later, his resignation, and remained about a month in a caretaker capacity. After that, he took over the chairmanship of the FDP parliamentary group. Lindner, Federal Chairman of the liberal, had traveled in connection to the choice of kemmerich’s self to Erfurt, in order to move the party colleagues a withdrawal. He is said to have threatened with his own resignation, had to survive in the party a vote of confidence. In may Kemmerich was once again in the criticism, because he took part in a Demonstration against Corona-restrictions in Gera, part – together with right-minded and followers of conspiracy theories. Since then, he has his office in the Federal Board of the FDP rest.
