Frauke Petry's "Blue Party" decided to dissolve it at the end of the year at a member party conference in Döbeln, Saxony.
As reported by the "Bild" newspaper, the former AfD chairman draws the consequences of the poor results in the state elections in Saxony and Thuringia.
"Our liberal-conservative policy offer has been clearly rejected by voters in both Saxony and Thuringia, so it is consistent, if painful, to end our project at this point," the 44-year-old told the newspaper.
The spokesman of the "Blue Party", Oliver Lang, confirmed the "image" report to the SPIEGEL.
Petry wants to leave active politics after 2021
After expiry of her parliamentary mandate in 2021, she wanted to withdraw from politics. "After that it was for me, I'll be consistent there," Petry continues. She hopes that others will "create a policy that not only leans on the left, but also on the right-wing socialists," Petry said. What is needed are middle-class leaders, "who find the courage to risk their own reputation in public discourse," said Petry.
At the election in Saxony on September 1, the "Blauen" got only 0.4 percent of the second votes, in Thuringia it was 0.1 percent. In surveys before the Thuringia election she was listed under "Other".
In 2013 Petry was founding chairman of the AfD with Bernd Lucke and Konrad Adam. A year later, she moved into the Saxon state parliament, 2015, she also displaced by the help of the Thuringian AfD right wing Björn Höcke her rival Lucke from the party leadership. However, after the 2017 general election Petry resigned as chairwoman of the AfD. She kept her mandates in the Bundestag and in the Saxon state parliament and founded the "Blue Party" in the same year.
