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Corona and the AfD: Federal party conference in Wiesbaden is canceled

2021-11-26T13:47:02.158Z


Björn Höcke's immunity will first be lifted, then he is said to have been infected with the corona virus. The planned federal party conference of the AfD will also be postponed to 2022.


Björn Höcke's immunity will first be lifted, then he is said to have been infected with the corona virus.

The planned federal party conference of the AfD will also be postponed to 2022.

Update from Friday, November 26th, 2021, 2:25 p.m .:

Due to the

Due to the acute corona situation, the AfD is postponing its federal party conference planned for December in Wiesbaden.

The AfD federal board decided on Friday (November 26th, 2021) in a conference call, as the German press agency reported.

The party congress was actually planned for December 11th this year, but will not take place until 2022.

A specific date should possibly be found in the coming week.

Just a few days ago, the federal executive board initially held on to the party congress, but pointed out the then applicable 2G rules in hotels (vaccinated and convalescent) in Hesse and in neighboring Rhineland-Palatinate.

A large part of the AfD members reject a vaccination against Covid-19.

The AfD delegates want to elect a new federal board at the party congress.

Of the two previous chairmen, only Tino Chrupalla is still running.

The long-time co-chairman Jörg Meuthen no longer wants to run for office.

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Björn Höcke (AfD) at the 63rd plenary session of the Thuringian Parliament on November 17th.

Due to the current Corona situation, the federal party conference of the AfD planned for December in Wiesbaden has to be postponed.

© Jacob Schröter / imago-images

Media report: Björn Höcke apparently infected with Corona

Update from Thursday, November 25th, 2021, 6:19 p.m.:

The Thuringian AfD state and parliamentary leader Björn Höcke is said to have been infected with the corona virus.

This is reported by the MDR Thuringia and refers to the state parliament and security groups.

The mdr writes in its report: “When asked, parliamentary group spokeswoman Lydia Funke said that the AfD does not comment on issues relating to the health of employees.

Co-party spokesman Stefan Möller also did not comment on request.

On Wednesday, Höcke had the pandemic situation at the special plenum in the state parliament

not participated."

Björn Höcke: immunity lifted - public prosecutor can investigate AfD politicians undisturbed

Update from 11/24/2021., 4:26 p.m.:

The Thuringian Justice Committee has lifted the immunity of the AfD parliamentary group leader Björn Höcke. The German Press Agency learned this on Wednesday (November 24th, 2021) from parliamentary groups. This cleared the way for the committee to investigate Höcke. According to reports, the investigation concerns, among other things, a speech that Höcke gave in Merseburg (Saxony-Anhalt) and which, according to a “Spiegel” report, ended with the sentence “Everything for Germany”.

According to his own statements, the Saxon-Anhalt Green leader Sebastian Striegel filed a criminal complaint against Höcke on June 8th - for using symbols of unconstitutional organizations.

From Thuringian parliamentary groups it was said that the immunity waiver for the member of the state parliament is in connection with Striegel's complaint.

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Björn Höcke (AfD) threatens trouble.

© Jacob Schröter / Imago

Nazi slogan: Björn Höcke's immunity is to be lifted today

First report from Wednesday, November 24th, 2021:

Erfurt - The justice committee in the Thuringian state parliament is to lift Björn Höcke's immunity today.

This is reported by Der Spiegel.

The reason is a request by the Halle public prosecutor's office, which is investigating a National Socialist statement by the AfD parliamentary group leader *.

Previously, the Saxony-Anhalt Greens chairman * Sebastian Striegel reported the AfD politician.

Höcke ended a speech in Merseburg in May with the words “Everything for Germany”.

Björn Höcke could have made himself liable to prosecution.

According to a report by the Scientific Service of the Bundestag, it is a "slogan of the SA", ie the "Sturmabteilung", a paramilitary fighting organization of the NSDAP.

The public prosecutor's office has not yet issued an opinion.

Björn Höcke: opinion leader of the right wing of the AfD

Sebastian Striegel writes in his criminal complaint that Björn Höcke hardly made the statement in Merseburg spontaneously. "The statement comes at the end of a thoroughly orchestrated speech by the representative of a party that is the object of observation for the protection of the constitution in Thuringia," said Striegel. "The reported speaker can be judged as a 'fascist' because this value judgment is based on a verifiable factual basis," writes Striegel in his application, from which Der Spiegel quoted.

The AfD-Landesvize Kay-Uwe Ziegler (Saxony-Anhalt) has already been reported because of the "slogan of the SA".

An election poster with a similar slogan was circulating in Brandenburg.

In both cases, those affected denied having known the meaning of their verdict.

(red / acg with dpa)

* fr.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA.

List of rubric lists: © Jacob Schröter / imago-images

Source: merkur

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