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Dana Guth, former group leader of the AfD in Lower Saxony
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The AfD in Lower Saxony plans to exclude the three MPs from the party who were responsible for the bursting of the parliamentary group.
"I will apply for an expulsion procedure against the three in the state executive this week," said the second deputy state chairman Stephan Bothe on Wednesday.
This was preceded by another failed attempt at an agreement with the previous parliamentary group leader Dana Guth and MPs Stefan Wirtz and Jens Ahrends.
You had not accepted the invitation to an "unconditional re-establishment" of a parliamentary group on Wednesday in the state parliament and did not appear at the date.
Guth announced her departure in a conflict with the radical AfD camp.
Wirtz and Ahrends had followed her and left the group of nine.
This no longer has the required minimum size of seven MPs.
The remaining six AfD MPs announced on Wednesday that they would in future act as a "group" in the state parliament.
However, the state constitution and the rules of procedure of the state parliament do not provide for this as a parliamentary entity.
In the Lower Saxony AfD, moderate and more radical forces have been fighting each other for a long time.
The party entered the state parliament in Hanover for the first time in 2017 with 6.2 percent of the vote.
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