State election: "Enormous risks" - SPD interior minister sees critical infrastructure threatened by AfD government
Georg Maier warns of security risks from a possible AfD interior minister in Saxony-Anhalt. What the SPD politician fears in this context goes far beyond Magdeburg.
Thuringia's Interior Minister Georg Maier has expressed concerns about the potential risks to Germany's critical infrastructure if the AfD were to take control of the interior ministry in Saxony-Anhalt. He warned that if investigation results were to leak to Russia, it would be "fatal". Maier cited the AfD's close ties to Russia and its leader Vladimir Putin, who he said uses the party as a key instrument to destabilize Germany.
Similar concerns were voiced by Marc Henrichmann, chairman of the Bundestag's parliamentary control committee, and Irene Mihalic, the Greens' parliamentary business leader, who described the AfD as a security risk and a willing tool of Putin's hybrid attacks on Germany.
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