Criticism from our own camp: Three AfD MPs from Bavaria want to travel to the Russia election. The parliamentary group expressly rejects this trip, said parliamentary group leader Katrin Ebner-Steiner.

The federal party executive committee of the AfD has also intervened and issued a resolution “strongly” recommending that Jurca, Roon and Singer refrain from their planned trip. The original plan was for the Citizens' Assembly to finance the trip. However, the MPs decided to bear the costs themselves, “precisely to avoid allegations of bias”