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Uwe Witt giving a speech in the Bundestag
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The AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag is getting smaller.
The two MPs Johannes Huber and Uwe Witt leave the party and the parliamentary group.
This was confirmed by the AfD parliamentary group leader Tino Chrupalla in response to a request from SPIEGEL.
The reasons are "of different nature".
According to a letter received by the dpa news agency, Witt is leaving the party because AfD members have "crossed boundaries".
According to SPIEGEL information, Huber is stepping down because of chats in a Telegram group, which is why two Bavarian AfD members are being investigated.
Will wants to continue to exercise his mandate
Witt, who was seen as a representative of the moderate trend in the party, wants to continue to exercise his mandate in the Bundestag.
Accordingly, he would be an independent member of parliament.
In a letter to the AfD federal office and the state office of the party, Witt wrote, according to the dpa, that he had always publicly articulated "clear positions in relation to internal party processes".
He also pointed out that he would take action if "these named transgressions within the party should reach the parliamentary group or the federal executive committee does not show a clear edge when party members transgress boundaries."
Witt said on request that he would comment publicly in mid-January on leaving the party and parliamentary group.
The MP is a member of the Labor and Social Affairs Committee.
He was a member of the Bundestag in the previous electoral term, at that time as a member of the AfD regional association of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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