Saxony's CDU state leader Michael Kretschmer wants to stand up to the AfD in next year's elections and is focusing on the topics of migration, energy and reducing bureaucracy. "Only when the problems that people are dissatisfied with are solved will this far-right AfD also dissolve," said Kretschmer at the state party conference in Chemnitz on Saturday. Talking about firewalls is useless. Instead, the party's breeding ground must be removed. This has already been shown by the DVU, NPD and Republicans.
Kretschmer renewed his call for an upper limit on the admission of refugees. Irregular migration must be reduced in order to have resources for the urgently needed immigration of skilled workers, for example in the care sector. He once again described the energy transition in Germany as a failure. It must be relaunched, the Minister President emphasized.
At the same time, he gave the federal government a disastrous report card in terms of economic policy. The 48-year-old criticized the recession, inflation and the exodus of companies as a result. "How this federal government has managed to drive this successful, strong country into the ashes within two years is beyond description." If, for example, the truck toll and VAT in the hospitality industry were to rise, this would be "poison for the economy". What is needed is a return to common sense instead of a state that educates the people.
Not only are local and European elections due in Saxony next year, but a new state parliament will also be elected. The CDU's goal must be to be so successful in the state elections that a democratic government can be formed from the political center - "very, very gladly without the Greens," emphasized Kretschmer. He currently heads a coalition with the Greens and SPD.
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