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Andreas Glas and Johann Osel
For Christian Klingen, the greatest freedom is a chair with a small table on the side, right at the back of the plenary hall of the Bavarian state parliament, almost at the gate. Anyone who has had a seat back there – for example as a press representative on committees – knows that you can see and hear better from almost every other position in the House. It is, if you will, the cat table of democracy. Klingen was the leader of the AfD parliamentary group until he left in March. The internal wing dispute, the concerned protection of the constitution – the usual reasons, even if Klingen formulated them rather smugly. In any case, he voluntarily said goodbye to the executive chair in the first row, where everything, really everything, went through his desk and he was allowed to respond promptly to Markus Söder when government statements were made. And not at some point just for a moment, when the journalists are already packing up again.