Elections in Thuringia: Start in the Saale-Orla district – politics

For the start of Thuringia’s election year, support from the top can’t hurt. “There were shepherds in the field,” Pastor Ingolf Scheibe-Winterberg quotes from the biblical Christmas story in order to adjust the volume of the microphone before a panel discussion about very earthly things. Tuesday evening in Plothen near Schleiz in the Saale-Orla district in eastern Thuringia, the church district invited the district administrator candidates to an interview. It will prove to be good to have a framework of decency that even supporters of right-wing extremists cannot easily break. “It’s new that the church is interfering in an election,” says Scheibe-Winterberg, “but I’m not doing this as a hobby politician, but as a professional Christian.”