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AfD strongest force in two federal states - Weidel and Meuthen still deliver ice-cold, bizarre scenes

2021-09-30T06:56:02.998Z


The AfD lost percentage points in the federal elections - and still became in some cases the strongest force in the East. The party leadership argues on Monday on the open stage.


The AfD lost percentage points in the federal elections - and still became in some cases the strongest force in the East.

The party leadership argues on Monday on the open stage.

Berlin - The bottom line is that the AfD is one of the losers in the federal election: the right-wing populists have not only lost 2.3 percentage points, but also their role as opposition leaders in parliament. In the future, they should either take over the Union or the SPD - or the Greens, should there actually be another GroKo. However, especially in the east, the AfD has recorded a threatening influx of voters from the point of view of the political center.

In any case, the AfD * could face turbulent months: in the party's press conference on the election result on Monday, violent disagreements in the party leadership revealed on the open stage.

There were even first indications of the departure of the federal spokesman Jörg Meuthen, who is considered moderate for AfD conditions.

It would be the next example in a long series of continual slips to the right in the AfD.

Bundestag election: AfD presents direction dispute on the open stage - Meuthen reprimands "old party manner"

Because while the top duo Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla were overall satisfied with the result, Meuthen sharply criticized the performance of his party. The result should not be glossed over in the "old party manner", said Meuthen during the joint appearance. Regarding the future of the AfD, he said: "We have to look in which direction this party is moving, do we come to a common denominator or do we not."

Meuthen called for a “clear analysis within the party”.

The election program and the top candidate duo served the “core clientele”, said Meuthen.

But it had not succeeded in reaching new groups of the electorate, he criticized - a hardly concealed criticism of what he believed to be a course that was too right-wing.

In the AfD, the power structure has been shifting in the direction of the radical forces around Thuringian right-wing winger Björn Höcke. 

The MEP also said, for example, that the AfD must also talk internally about whether it was wise to write the demand for Germany to leave the European Union in the election manifesto *.

He was often approached at election campaign events about this position, which many voters did not understand, despite all the criticism of the EU.

AfD: Weidel drives Meuthen indirectly over the mouth - and is silent on the Höcke question

"I'm not necessarily 100 percent satisfied with the result," admitted top candidate Tino Chrupalla, who has been co-chairing the party with Meuthen for almost two years.

Nevertheless, he spoke of a "very stable result".

Co-top candidate Alice Weidel said that she “don't let anyone talk bad about the result”.

When asked how she felt about Meuthen, she said: “He is a character.

I've always enjoyed working with him. ”That sounded a bit as if Meuthen was already a thing of the past in the AfD.

Meuthen left it open whether he would run for chairmanship again at the federal party conference in December.

When Weidel asked whether “the fascist Björn Höcke” could be a possible successor, there was brief silence on the podium.

"Alice, you were asked," said Meuthen.

The group leader reacted with a long silence and a "Hm?"

“I'm not answering that question,” she finally stated.

This was preceded by another seemingly bizarre scene.

According to Chrupalla's initial statement, neither Meuthen nor Weidel wanted to continue.

“No, the federal spokesman” was on, said Weidel in the direction of Meuthen, as

reported by fr.de *

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"Your turn first," said Weidel when Meuthen asked.

He responded laconically: "Anyway, we can do it like that."

AfD in the federal election: right-wing populists become the strongest force in Saxony and Thuringia

However, the right-wing party also cheered on Sunday evening.

In Saxony and Thuringia, the AfD became the strongest force in the federal elections: In Thuringia - where the party led by state chief Björn Höcke is monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution - 24 percent of the second votes were in the end, in Saxony even 24.6 percent.

In Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the AfD landed in second place.

The party received the greatest support in the Bundestag election according to the first demoscopic analyzes of workers and the unemployed.

In doing so, it is continuing the course promoted by ex-party leader Alexander Gauland to establish itself as the “party of the common people”.

In contrast, the former “professors' party” performed significantly weaker among the self-employed and pensioners. 

Bundestag election: AfD parliamentary group elects new chairman - Weidel and Chrupalla want to give a "double pack"

Gauland himself will no longer head the AfD parliamentary group in the new legislature.

The new parliamentary group should be elected on Wednesday.

Weidel and Chrupalla have announced that they want to compete together.

That's how it went four years ago.

After the federal election, Weidel and Alexander Gauland applied to chair the parliamentary group.

Meuthen said he did not want to interfere in the concerns of the group, but he did not consider it to be a good practice "to act in a double pack".

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Source: merkur

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