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Comment: Aigner should also have gone to the AfD and the Left
As Federal President, Ilse Aigner wants to overcome divides. During her visit to the Bundestag, however, she did not try to overcome the thresholds in front of the AfD and Left parliamentary group halls. A s
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Comment Introduction to parliamentary groups Aigner would also have had to go to the AfD and the Left As of: November 11, 2026 • 2:20 a.m
As Federal President, Ilse Aigner wants to overcome divides. During her visit to the Bundestag, however, she did not try to overcome the thresholds in front of the AfD and Left parliamentary group halls. A bad start.
Ilse Aigner wants to build bridges and reach those who feel like they are on the sidelines. Good this way. That is exactly the job of a Federal President.
But then she also has to be consistent and introduce herself to the AfD and Left factions - even without an invitation. Finally she wants to introduce herself.
The fact that our society is divided is primarily an assertion by the AfD. It divides the world into black and white, speaks of “old parties” and “system media” on the one hand and of itself as the “only alternative” on the other.
Aigner could break this logic and sit in the AfD parliamentary group room with his back straight. She could make it clear that she will be the president of all Germans. She could stand above the fact that the AfD politician Beatrix von Storch described Aigner's nomination as a "statement of poverty."
At the latest as Federal President, Aigner will have to face the right-wing extremist party that wants to govern Germany. That could be the big task of your term. It's best to start now.
And then go straight to the left. From a party political point of view, it is perhaps understandable that the Union is currently firing sharply at the left so as not to lose the Red City Hall in Berlin to the left.
But Aigner must also be the president of the left-wing Germans, the president of the young women in the cities, the migrants, the East Germans. So all the people who largely voted for the left in the last state elections because they don't feel represented by the other parties.
Aigner is not yet the Federal President. She should still behave like one and put her party book aside.
This topic in the program: NDR Info | News | 11/10/2026 | 5:07 p.m