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Beatrix von Storch
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There are said to have been irregularities in the selection of the Berlin delegates for the AfD federal party conference in December.
This is reported by the »Tagesspiegel«.
The focus of the case is the prominent politician Beatrix von Storch.
According to the party's regional arbitration court, it put three candidates for delegate posts on the electoral list in June, even though they neither wanted to apply nor had done so.
Therefore, according to the report, the court has issued an interim order.
This forbids the Berlin regional association to send even one of the 25 elected delegates to the party congress in Wiesbaden in December.
This therefore applies until either the party's federal arbitration court decides otherwise or the regional arbitration tribunal comes to a different judgment in the outstanding main proceedings.
"Concrete danger" of contestability
The basis for the decision of the party court is an affidavit from an AfD member who was part of the meeting leadership, the newspaper reports.
Von Storch made a personal appearance in the "back office" and instructed witness A. to include party members F. and G. as further applicants on the electoral list, according to the court's judgment.
A short time later, the name of another party member was added.
If delegates elected to attend the party congress in June, there is a "real risk that the results of the coming federal party congress will in all probability become contestable," the judges continue to explain.
The Berlin AfD regional association wants to take action against the decision of its own arbitration tribunal.
Party spokesman Ronald glasses announced that they would go to the federal arbitration tribunal.
Von Storch reacted calmly to the allegations, reports the "Tagesspiegel" on.
“The allegations are not true.
Nobody was subsequently put on a closed list.
The meeting management was impeccable, «said the 50-year-old accordingly.
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