Far-right AfD’s collapse of inaugural sitting of Thuringia state parliament provides timely backdrop to new play in which populist governor sparks constitutional crisis
Top candidate of far-right AfD for the regional elections in Brandenburg, Hans-Christoph Berndt and AfD party leader in Thuringia Bjoern Hoecke hug during the election results party of the AFD in Potsdam. Photograph: Filip Singer/Getty ImagesOn Friday the blue wall was backdrop to an uneasy new “what-if” play, Der Volksbürger or citizen of the people.
Its premiere on Friday couldn’t be more timely. Austria’s populist Freedom Party is on course to win Sunday’s national elections, a political first. Anticipating an AfD victory and this very scenario, other parties in the previous parliament sought to change this rule but were blocked by the centre-right Christian Democratic Union .Soon the sitting descended into chaos, with the CDU and AfD accusing the other of bending parliamentary rules and disregarding democratic norms
Ahead of his play’s premiere on Friday, Steinbeis suggested the AfD had co-opted the state parliament in Thuringia for a populist “spectacle” of its own.
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