AfD founding chairman Konrad Adam resigns - and brutally settles accounts with the party

With Konrad Adam, the AfD is now losing the last of the three founding chairmen.

With his declaration, he not only criticizes the development of the party, but also parliamentary group leader Alexander Gauland.

• As the last of the three founding chairmen, Konrad Adam is also leaving the AfD.

• In his explanation he criticizes the party's development.

• For example, the right wing wing is too dominant and the influence of lobbyists too strong.

Berlin - The conservative journalist

(78), who is one of the founding chairmen of the

, has announced that he

wants to leave

the

.

"On January 1, 2021, I will no longer be

," said Adam.

over the chairmanship of the party in

2013 together with

and

.

Lucke was voted out of office in Essen in July 2015 and left the party.

Petry left the party in autumn 2017 and is now a non-attached member of the Bundestag.

The development of the party made Adam sad, as a "bourgeois-conservative" force he saw no future for the

. Most recently, he was only involved as honorary chairman of the

affiliated Desiderius Erasmus Foundation, run by the former

* MPs Erika Steinbach is headed.

AfD founding chairman Konrad Adam criticizes the development of the AfD

several points to

justify his resignation

: The party's path in environmental and climate issues was wrong.

He also criticized the chairman of the

* parliamentary group,

.

This one took care of it.

that the right wing is getting stronger.

He always protected himself from "southpaws like Andreas Kalbitz and the Thuringian state chairman Björn Höcke."

Gauland declined to comment on the allegations to

.

"You shouldn't stop travelers," he commented on the exit.

The great influence of lobbyists on the work of the party, for example in the areas of transport and agricultural policy, is a thorn in his side.

"There is lobbyism in other

too

, but

lobbyists dominate

the

in a way that makes credible politics impossible."

As the last AfD founding chairman, the publicist Konrad Adam is now leaving the party https://t.co/LJKcrGdyFq @rponline (correction tweet: founding chairman, not founding member) pic.twitter.com/iUCxiIGBIH

- dpa (@dpa) September 29, 2020

Precisely because the

starts with the slogan "We are the Basic Law", it must also stop ignoring financial irregularities and violations of the statutes, which has already happened several times.

Another point is that the

lacks a socio-political concept even after seven years of existence.

"In the

, the inability to compromise is a birth defect," is

conclusion.

AfD accuses Konrad Adam of frustration over election defeat

At the end of 2012

decided to found a party because Germany lacked a “real opposition party”.

This also became clear

during the

* of 2015.

But the "

" in the

has now become too strong.

Some members of the

do

not

seem

to take

the

criticism

seriously.

He was only expressing his frustration that he was no longer elected to party offices.

In 2015 he failed with his candidacy for the post of assessor.

"After my candidacy at the 2015 party convention in Essen was unsuccessful, I was silent for three years before I made my criticism public," contradicts

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