Sympathy for the AfD: CSU boss reacts outraged
Created: 11/29/2022, 06:00
By: Hans Moritz
A Langenpreisinger CSU member finds AfD front woman Alice Weidel quite good - and also announces this actively on his Facebook page.
This massively displeases the CSU district board.
© Tobias Schwarz/AFP
The candidate election at the CSU is having an effect.
Opposing candidate Alexander Otto Klug shows a conspicuous proximity to AfD frontwoman Alice Weidel on Facebook.
That could get him in trouble now.
Erding/Langenpreising – It came as a surprise to many CSU delegates when, on Wednesday, a rival candidate for district day candidate Max Gotz was suddenly named: Alexander Otto Klug.
Langenpreising's second mayor, Leo Melerowitz, suggested the 48-year-old energy consultant.
Although the father of a ten-year-old daughter was defeated by 58:111 votes, the surprise in the party must have been even greater when it came to light after the meeting that Klug not only has a soft spot for the CSU, but obviously also for the AfD and here especially for Alice Weidel.
She is considered a right-wing populist and leads the AfD parliamentary group with Tino Chrupalla.
First, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported on the AfD posts shared by Klug.
He told the SZ that he "completely rejects the AfD", but shares certain opinions.
The AfD, Klug is also quoted as saying, represents conservative values and in many areas does the politics that the CSU stood for 20 years ago.
He likes that.
CSU district chairman Martin Bayerstorfer does not like this proximity at all.
"I can in no way approve of that," he told our newspaper.
"We will examine the extent to which this attitude is compatible with CSU membership." Not for him.
In other words, in extreme cases, Klug could be thrown out of the party.
Klug has obviously gotten cold feet by now.
All AfD content shared on Facebook is no longer publicly viewable.
At the weekend they were.
He had posted the last one just the night after his lost candidate election – excerpt from a speech by Weidel in the Bundestag.
It is also noteworthy that shortly before Klug's candidacy, Ulrike Scharf, a member of the state parliament and Minister for Social Affairs, had clearly rejected any form of racism, extremism and anti-Semitism - and received applause from the 180 delegates in the Gasthaus Straßer in Oberbierbach.
Melerowitz said: "Alex is a great guy.
I would have suggested him too if I had known about the posts.
He is definitely not right-wing either, and is far from the AfD.
He doesn't hurt a fly."
In the AfD there are “many disguised CSU members who have turned away from the party”.
According to Melerowitz, they only have an eye on local politics, which is why he proposed it.
Because big politics doesn't look enough at the base, "and we wanted a younger man".
Melerowitz ran in the 2020 local elections as a mayoral candidate in Langenpreising.
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