The election on Wednesday 5 February of the Liberal Democratic Party (FDP) candidate Thomas Kemmerich as head of the state of Thuringia with the votes of the far right provoked an outcry in Germany and outrage from several European political families.
This is the first time in the country since the post-war period that the president of a Land has been elected with the support of the far right. Mr Kemmerich, who had won the votes of all the elected members from the far-right Alternative für...