This is a blow to the AfD: Albert Grasegger has turned his back on the party and joined the Bayern party. And the BP could continue to grow in the Garmisch-Partenkirchner town council. Discussions are ongoing with the CSB to establish a committee community. However, not all questions seem to have been answered yet.
Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Every new day is good for a surprise in political Garmisch-Partenkirchen. On Wednesday, Mayor Dr. Sigrid Meierhofer (SPD) that she would not accept her mandate of the local council if she lost to Elisabeth Koch (CSU) in the runoff election tomorrow. Yesterday Albert Grasegger (57), who was the only candidate for the Alternative for Germany (AfD) to enter the municipal council at the poll on March 15, informed Meierhofer in a letter that he had left the AfD and had joined the Bavaria Party (BP ) will connect.
As a trigger, Grasegger, who works at the municipal building yard, cites "the dirty election campaign" that the AfD had waged against the mayor candidates of almost all parties. He explicitly names the chairman Helmut Filser and Jens Weikert, both of whom launched attacks on the social media that went below the belt. When Grasegger announced his decision, he was said to have been urged by the board, particularly by Filser, to give up the mandate, in order to give an AfD successor the chance to move into the local council. "I rejected that," says Grasegger, because it was mainly personal votes that he received. Filser also attacks the Bayern party in a Facebook post. "If the BP takes him, it is just as lacking in character." Albert Grasegger's main intention is to work on topics "that have to do with home". Bayern party leader Andreas Grasegger received his namesake, both are neither related nor related, with open arms. "He asked us, we agreed because we agree on many things."
Due to Albert Grasegger's change, the Bayern party has grown to three heads. There is a good chance that the party will continue to gain weight. Andreas Grasegger as well as Claudia Zolk, Florian Hilleprandt and Andreas Wieland, all from the CSB, who were decimated from six to two seats in the local elections, confirm negotiations to establish a committee community with the aim of achieving parliamentary status. "That is crucial for me, even though the Bavaria Party does not necessarily represent our kind of politics," says Hilleprandt.
Grasegger, who had sought contact with the Christian Social Alliance, described the talks as very advanced. "" We are 99 percent in agreement. "Zolk, on the other hand, who is commissioned by the CSB to explore the chances for cooperation, denies that everything is almost certain. "There are still a few questions left." Above all, who should lead the committee community in the future. And the plan could still fail because of this. For Hilleprandt, leader of the CSB parliamentary group for the past six years, only Zolk can be considered. Whether Andreas Grasegger, who together with Hubert Filser, the brother of the AfD chairman, represented the Bavaria Party in the local council and continues to represent it, can be friends with it - rather questionable.
The transfer of ex-AfD man Albert Grasegger, from whom the CSB was caught cold and about which both Zolk and Hilleprandt found out from the Tagblatt, could possibly also prove to be an exclusion criterion. The reaction can be described as astonished. "We'll have to talk about that," explains Zolk.