Banners proclaimed: “We do not want a Fourth Reich” or “We do not want power at any cost”.
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Dhe thousands of people demonstrated on Saturday in Erfurt, the capital of Thuringia in the former GDR, where the election of the region’s leader by the far right caused a political earthquake in Germany.
Some 18,000 people demonstrated, according to the organizers, NGOs, artists, unionists and political leaders, united in the #Unteilbar (“indivisible” in French) alliance.
The demonstrators met at midday in the center of the city under the slogan: “not with us, no pact with the fascists: never and nowhere!” “. Banners proclaimed: “We do not want a Fourth Reich” or “We do not want power at any cost”.
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Liberal Thomas Kemmerich’s surprise election on February 5, thanks to the united voices of the conservative right and the far right, had already provoked a number of spontaneous rallies across Germany.
Faced with outcry, this candidate of the small liberal FDP party threw in the towel 24 hours after his election by a very small majority.
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