The North Rhine-Westphalian AfD meets from today (6 p.m.) to Sunday in Essen's Grugahalle for a state election meeting.
The delegates vote on the line-up for the state elections on May 15, 2022.
The election of the top spots on their national list is expected to be on Saturday morning.
Landtag parliamentary group leader Markus Wagner is running for first place.
Essen - According to a party spokeswoman, other elected officials also want to run again.
Overall, the AfD is planning to choose 25 places on the list.
This and next weekend is planned for this.
In the 2017 state election, the AfD moved into the Düsseldorf state parliament for the first time with 7.4 percent of the vote and then still 16 seats.
The country list drew all of them;
The AfD did not get direct mandates.
However, three MPs left the parliamentary group in the same year and have since sat as non-attached MPs in the state parliament.
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