He has long been out of the AfD faction in Baden-Württemberg, but his party does not want to have him in their ranks: Against the Baden-Württemberg state parliament delegate Wolfgang Gedeon the AfD Federal Executive continues to push ahead with an expulsion.
In a telephone conference, the party leaders unanimously decided to call the Federal Arbitration Court. Previously, the State Court of Schleswig-Holstein had decided that the party's controversial MP may remain in the AfD.
Among other things, Gedeon was criticized for his commentary on the formation of the group "Jews in the AfD". He had written on his website: "In the best case, this foundation is superfluous as a goiter, in the worst case, it is a Zionist lobby organization, which runs counter to the interests of Germany and the Germans."
Split faction
The Baden-Württemberg Arbitration Court had declared itself biased, which is why the matter fell to the Arbitration Court in Schleswig-Holstein. The allegations that Gedeon had commented racially on the occasion of a parliamentary debate as a deputy, the court said, according to their own statements of last week as inconclusive.
The party leaders Jorg Meuthen and Alexander Gauland had then pointed to the case of suspected contacts in the right-wing extremist scene from the AfD Doris Sayn-Wittgenstein. Again, the state arbitration court in Kiel initially rejected a party exclusion, which the Federal Arbitration Court but then revised. The federal executive wants to go after the defeat in the case Gedeon now in the next instance.
Anti-Semitism allegations against Gedeon had temporarily led in 2016 to the split of the AfD faction in the Baden-Württemberg state parliament. Gedeon is currently a member of the state parliament as a non-attached MP. The politician also triggered with speeches in Parliament again and again outrage. He rejects the anti-Semitism accusations.
