Bodo Ramelow actually wants to become prime minister again. But a third of eligible voters in Thuringia want to vote for the AfD and then there is the BSW. On the road with someone who is still standing in Höcke's way.
It is the hottest day in Thuringia this summer so far, and the heat is building up in the second-hand shop on a shopping street in Weimar. You would like to leave the shop quickly, but Bodo Ramelow has got himself bogged down in conversation. Again. He has already been chatting for half an hour with the four women who run the clothing store, about pop-up stores and shoplifting (“I trained as a retail clerk”). No end in sight. It has been like this for two days now, Bodo Ramelow talks and talks. At the wood manufacturer near the border with Bavaria about forest dieback (“The spruce is history”), at the metalworker Weimar-Werk about a potato harvester (“I saw one in Tatarstan once”).
