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Member of the European Parliament, Sonneborn: "I'm an absolute razor when it comes to practical work"
Photo: HC Plambeck / HCPlambeck
It takes eleven minutes before Kerstin Kruschwitz says for the first time that she wants to "seize power" in Germany.
Together with around 150 men and women in the hall and thousands across the country.
Kruschwitz, 50, sits on the stage of the Babylon cinema in Berlin-Mitte.
Like most of the others, she wears a red tie and a gray suit, and a small pin flashes on the right of her lapel: "The party".
It is the end of September, the state party conference in Berlin.
As treasurer, Kruschwitz is part of the board and gives the welcoming speech with a colleague.
The party was founded by the satirist Martin Sonneborn, initially intended as a joke and provocation, but is now on the way to establishing itself in the political system.
In the 2013 federal election, a meager 0.2 percent made their mark on the party, in 2017 it was 1 percent, and in the 2019 European elections it was 2.4 percent.
The party won more votes than the FDP in Berlin, Bamberg, Nuremberg and three other cities, and more than the CDU in seven districts of Hamburg.
Among the first-time voters, she was the third strongest force with 9 percent.
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