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Alexander Gauland in Braunschweig
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The AfD leadership continues to argue about the speech by party leader Jörg Meuthen at the federal party conference last weekend.
"The tone, timing and content of this speech were not worthy of a chairman," said the chairman of the parliamentary group, Alexander Gauland, on Saturday in Braunschweig.
"It would have been his job to bring the party together, not to throw off parts."
Meuthen had given a fiery speech against the ethnic part of the party in Kalkar.
In it, among other things, he sharply criticized the rhetoric of some AfD colleagues: "We will no longer achieve success by appearing more and more aggressive, more and more coarse, more and more uninhibited." A heated debate ensued about the party leader.
In the SPIEGEL, the völkisch wing asked Meuthen to revive the content.
Rarely has a speech had such an impact, said Gauland at an AfD meeting to draw up a state list for the federal election.
"Nobody talks about our pension concept, it simply doesn't interest." Gauland also spoke of a "steep bill" for the protection of the constitution.
He does not assume that Meuthen wanted this.
"But he should have thought about it longer."
Meuthen had spoken of "provocateurs" in their own ranks and warned the party to be disciplined before the election year 2021.
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