the far right alternative of germany has resigned 3 days after taking office the election of thomas kenniff a from the business friendly free democrats shouted a german post or political to boo or against cooperating with far right parties now the crisis meeting here in berlin the conservatives in their social democrat party has agreed to a push for a new election in the eastern state. black limousines pull up to the chancellor e. in berlin. chancellor angela merkel's governing coalition teetered once again on the brink outside demonstrations against cooperation with the far right a.f.p. . while inside the social democrats leadership threatened to pull out of the coalition with conservatives over this week's controversial selection in the state of thuringia the eastern german states parliament voted for thomas from the business friendly f.d.p. party to become its state premier. to do that they require the backing of the far right a.f.p. chemical shaking hands with the leader of the courts have ruled that he can legally be described as a fascist some say this shattered a post-war german tabo

course conducted in a democratic way well new elections were bound to happen as is than because thomas kenniff said he had said he wouldn't cooperate in a government with the a.v.n. he could have only managed to govern with a majority. including the a of these since no one wanted to cooperate with him now if we see new elections in 3 there's bound to be some shifts because but we're not sure they're going to benefit traditional parties now because there's a breach of trust between the people and traditional parties after what just happened yesterday is so new elections and the result is very uncertain all right monitoring all of it for us and by the way political correspondent thank you so much. the world health organization is calling for almost 700000000 dollars to help fight the coronavirus it says that the money is needed to help countries that don't have systems in place to combat the virus meanwhile the death toll is approaching 600 people and more than 28000 people have now been infected with china's capital beijing is not at the center of the outbreak that correspondent but he is sprea

to elect a state premier thomas kenniff from the pro-business free democrats was elected premie of the small state of 3 with help from the i.f.j. and the conservative c.d.u. now the c.d.u. is chancellor angela merkel's posse until today either party has had refused any cooperation with the anti migrant and. bad credit that got you fired that there outside the from democrats headquarters in berlin about a 1000 demonstrators gathered to send a message to the new state premier a few 100 kilometers away his election breaks a taboo inside the party leader was congratulatory but at a distance. the support from the far right comes as a surprise because the party is not aligned with our party it was purely a tactical moves. but the a.f.d. in 3 inches says the vote was planned that way. the conservative majority prevailed and that's great because if we wanted to put a left party leadership posture and we succeeded for. the conservative christian democrats took their time to react some welcomed the result of the vote speaking in strasburg the head of chancellor merkel's party had this message. t

right alternative for germany party has resigned 3 days off taking office now the election of thomas kenniff of the business friendly free democrats shot it a german post for political debate against co-operating with far right parties now the mainstream conservatives in the state of 3 also supported his election triggering outrage that threatened to break up chancellor angela merkel's coalition government now at a crisis meeting about in the conservatives and the social democrats partners agree to push for a new election in the eastern states. to walk us through all of this t w political correspondent kate brady joins me now kate i am with resigning at the coalition wants new state elections is that the solution to all of this well it certainly seems that we are going to see new elections. that demand has come from in or the highest position from the government governing coalition but it really doesn't seem that that might solve this problem it could still come to a very similar result we've been looking at some polls today and even now there is one coalition that looks most likely and that

the coalition a great leaders agree on well you know the main demand was all about this from thomas kenniff ish he was of course the f.t.p. per business f.t.p. politician who was controversially appointed as state premier in earlier this week with of course the support of the far right a f t and one of the main demands from the social democrats today towards a coalition partner conservatives was to get this man to resign now of course if you've been following this story closely you might have thought he actually resigned a couple of days ago right but he said that he was going to resign but then backtracked a little sayin that he'd stay in office until a replacement was found but he has now indeed stood down and we can have a listen now as well to have a look now at what else they had to say in their statement today. the election of the state premier in thuringia with a majority that was only achieved with the fights from the a.f.d. is an unforgivable event the coalition partners expect the elected state premier to a must chemical to draw the only correct conclusion and step down from offic

the far right alternative for germany has resigned 3 days in office taking office he lection of thomas kenniff from the business friendly free democrats shouted a german post for political to boo about against rather cooperating with far right parties their out of crisis meeting about it the conservatives and their social democrat partners agree to push for a new election in the east and state. black limousines pull up to the chancellor e. in berlin. chancellor angela merkel's governing coalition teetered once again on the brink outside demonstrations against cooperation with the far right a.f.p. . while inside the social democrats leadership threatened to pull out of the coalition with america's conservatives over this week's controversial selection in the state of thuringia. the eastern german state's parliament voted for thomas chemically from the business friendly f.t.p. party to become its state premier. to do that they require the backing of the far right a hefty chemical a shaking hands with a hefty leader a beer and hooka chords a rule that he can be equally be described as a fascist s

all of the local left party leader susana handing congratulating the temporary state premier thomas kenniff by dumping flowers at his feet now she's being compared to nancy pelosi in the u.s. who's famous for her take downs of donald trump there were a few voices who were speaking out in defense of this election outcome now this one was opposed from the f.t.p. federal member could be key saying what the constitution allows shouldn't be discredited he and a few others were pointing out that the result was achieved democratically even if tactically we heard as well joe that there are comparisons really being drawn here in the darkest chapter and german history tells more about that well it is the state where the nazis 1st came to power in any meaningful way they were given ministerial positions in 1930 as a result of a collaboration with liberal parties and so yesterday we started seeing images being shed comparing the photo taken here of the state leda kemet shaking hands with a if dealy to be on hookah and it was being compared with the picture from 1933 of adult hitler with then german pre

stepping down just a day off to being controversially elected with the help of far right extremists thomas kenniff a from the business friendly free democrats won a vote in the eastern state of terror india with the backing of the far right alternative for germany and chancellor angela merkel's conservative c.d.u. party the chancellor has described the election as unfair give a go can have a he says his resignation was inevitable to remove the state of the far right involvement. and joining me now from frankfurt is michelle freedman a lawyer journalist and political analyst welcome to you now we're already seeing but it's cool fallout from this with the free democrats now saying that they want to dissolve the state parliament what would that mean. it means that we had seen and participate on the political earthquake it was the 1st time a premium afterword to 2 that with the votes of the liberals and the conservative parties but the participation of the right fall extremist movement if the into ringin were the leader is somebody who we can call a fascist and which are tremendously resi racists that

even thomas kenniff seemed dumbfounded by his election as the ranges state premier last fall his business friendly free democratic party had barely managed to top the 5 percent hurdle his victory was secured with votes from the far right alternative for germany party. that's been met with shock by parties that led the previous state government. because this is this is a rupture of the political landscape the mainstream conservative parties the christian democrats and the free democrats have forged a coalition with a group led by fascists you could see this was a coordinated maneuver. chemicals only entered the race in the 3rd round of voting the previous state premier. had lost twice as did his opponent christophe kinda fatah a rural mayor who had been appointed by the far right kinda fatah emerged from the 3rd round without any votes those who supported him in the 1st 2 rounds apparently voted for chemical the 3rd time around but now he faces major challenges the new state leader has no platform and no team so it's social democratic ministers will not work for state premier who was elect

there is no basis for cooperation we do not support the goals and values of that party while thomas kenniff accepted the votes from a day or 2 put him over the line and make him the new state premier into danger he has ruled out any coalition government talks in the states with alternative for germany 'd but this is going to have potentially big ramifications outside of the state of today in june in fact one senior figure within the christian democratic union again that angle of merkel's party has described this move as well playing with fire that could potentially or at least has set german politics ablaze. we heard from visions of a solly of germany's the left party furious of what he calls a right wing coup firstly from alternative to germany's bicester. the question is what was the fault of onset and the turning and people. said quite clearly we would like to have a conservative coalition and that this is the majority we have this is a city you have the m.f.t. fear they have the heft majority and the communists and the socialists they were just ignoring it they wanted to build the gover

leader the left party leader susana handing dumping flowers at the feet of the new state lida thomas kenniff now she's being compared to nancy pelosi in the u.s. who's of course famous for hotate downs of donald trump in the u.s. congress there there have been some voices who have been speaking out in defense of this outcome such as this post from f.t.p. federal member gun could be key saying what the constitution allows shouldn't be discredited he and a few others a pointing out that the result was achieved democratically even if tactically and we've heard also that some people are making comparisons to particularly dark chapter in germany sister tell us more about that but let's not forget that is the state where the nazis 1st came to power they were given ministerial posts there in 1930 as a result of collaboration with liberal parties so now let's have a look at some photos being shed from yesterday we saw an image of chemical shaking hands with a.s.d. state leave the on hookah and then that's been compared with this image from the 19330 out of hitler and the german president paul from h

something that becomes part of german political history the jury's still out on that we have heard thomas kenniff say he is looking to actually form a government so what does happen next what do german parties do to undo this as chancellor merkel has called for. well the parties here in berlin can't really do that terribly much except try and put pressure on the regional party leadership because germany is a federal state ironically the setup is that to prevent exactly something like this happening the other way around if you had an extremist party again in power at the central level they would not be able to exercise pressure to tell regional parties what to do now this is a reverse situation and i would expect. to consider very carefully who is next step because at the end of the day he doesn't have a majority that he can really form a government with in the state of the renia and the far right if he is celebrating this as a victory at least a moral victory over the conservative block particularly under the mackerels c.d.u. alexander going on the chief whip in parliament a leading figure and a

well for his part thomas kenniff did accept the day's backing to take the role as state premier but he has said that he won't be involving alternative for germany in any negotiations for forming a government within the state but what we're also hearing from one senior party member within the christian democratic union is what the f. 3 day is a thorn here is they've played with fire and essentially set the whole of german politics ablaze you know their own bifurcation so be fascinating peter should know whatever way it turns are terry europe correspondent peter oliver thank you. well let's indeed get a little bit further into this i'm very happy to say a strong foreign policy speaker for the alternative for germany party in the buddhist joins us live petter why do you think the christian democrats were willing to break their own taboo and cooperate with it if they vote. well the answer's quiet simple just look at the election results the christian democrats answering it they have lost. quite a many around 11 point and percent and they lost it's to the a.f. d. and this is because of the

it was a scandal even though his party got the fewest votes thomas kenniff was surprisingly elected state premier of 13 jia. he secured the position with the votes from the cd you and a f t for the 1st time in german post-war history with right wing populist that can make us. according to a court ruling the leader pure in her may now be legally called a fascist many so cannot accept handshake with him as or to boo break out. a gesture from this left party politician has become a symbol of protest even chancellor merkel who was on a state visit to south africa spoke out. of action was unforgivable and so the results must be river. but even the new premiers resignation couldn't calm the storm democratic election or to. what message chancellor in just sent. then to win it it is unclear to this day to what degree the christian democrats in theory actually overtly coordinated with the f.t. on that 3rd round of voting that occurred nonetheless the reaction from berlin was absolutely immediate and the negative as we have seen so why what is behind this taboo and even in direct coordination with