The AfD's ambitions for the state elections at the end of September were great, but they lost 4.1 percentage points.
Party spokesman Leif-Erik Holm will have to provide explanations at the party conference on Saturday in Grevesmühlen.
Schwerin / Grevesmühlen - AfD member of the Bundestag Leif-Erik Holm assumes that he will be able to lead his party as sole state chairman in the future. “It is time we took this path. We are one of the last state associations that still work with the two-speaker model, ”said Holm of the German Press Agency before the party conference on Saturday in Grevesmühlen (Northwest Mecklenburg). It is better if there are clear responsibilities. The amendment to the statutes must be approved by a two-thirds majority of the party members present. But for many in the party it is important that they know exactly who is taking responsibility. According to the information, there is currently no second application for the party chairmanship.
According to the Rostock political scientist Jan Müller, the AfD MV is facing a difficult party congress. The leadership must be asked why in the state election compared to the election five years ago 4.1 percentage points were lost and the state result is 1.3 percentage points worse than in the federal government. In the state elections, the AfD had 16.7 percent of the vote, the state result in the federal election was 18.0 percent.
"We got away with the election with a black eye," said Holm.
Reasons for the losses are the "SPD hype" around Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD) as well as internal quarrels that have caused negative headlines about the AfD.
Holm named the Greifswald law professor Ralph Weber, who is considered a representative of the right wing.
Holm accused him again of anti-party behavior.
There is a party expulsion process against him.
“It does not throw a good light on these people to see themselves as great patriots and then to damage this party in such a way.” Holm also counted rumors of revealing parties in the state parliament among such actions.
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The AfD is very broad and accepts different currents, emphasized Holm.
It is also positive that, according to the analysis of voter migration, it was possible to convince former non-voters of the program.
"The campaign worked."
For the political scientist Müller, on the other hand, the AfD's dealings with party members on the right-wing fringe are still unclear.
Since an open and not a delegate congress is being held in Grevesmühlen, it remains to be seen which wing can mobilize the most members.
"It has its own dynamic, and mood can change," said Müller.
It is currently not possible to see how great the internal party opposition to the party leadership is.
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