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The AfD Saxony wants to get rid of Roland Ulbrich.
The reason is said to be a serious violation of party principles - but the party is keeping quiet about the details.
Dresden – The AfD in Saxony wants to exclude state parliament member Roland Ulbrich from the party and parliamentary group.
The state executive committee, in coordination with the AfD federal executive committee, requested party expulsion proceedings against Ulbrich, as a parliamentary group spokesman announced on Monday (January 29) in Dresden.
At the next parliamentary group meeting on Wednesday (January 31st) a vote should also be taken on his exclusion from the state parliamentary group.
AfD Saxony is silent about the reason
Press spokesman Felix Menzel did not want to give any reasons.
“I can’t say that at this point,” Menzel told
MDR Sachsen
.
However, there is no connection with the right-wing extremist secret meeting in Potsdam.
The Correctiv
network
reported on a right-wing extremist secret meeting at which AfD politicians were said to have discussed the expulsion of millions of people with an immigrant background.
The AfD Saxony wants to exclude the lawyer Roland Ulbrich from the party and the state parliamentary group in Saxony.
(Archive image) © Sebastian Willnow/dpa
The general secretary of the Saxon AfD and parliamentary manager of the state parliamentary group, Jan Zwerg, said that Ulbrich had “seriously violated the party principles.
We are therefore forced to act.” Zwerg added: “The AfD stands firmly on the basis of the free-democratic basic order.
Anyone who makes extremist statements - regardless of whether they are right-wing or left-wing extremists - is doing massive damage to the AfD.” The Office for the Protection of the Constitution classifies the AfD in Saxony as definitely right-wing extremist.
AfD man Ulbrich has often caused outrage
According to AfD Saxony, Ulbrich's earlier statements were also not decisive.
In 2019, he caused outrage with comments about the attack on the synagogue in Halle.
A day after the attack, he wrote on a social network: “What is worse, a damaged synagogue door or two Germans killed?”
On October 9, 2019, the right-wing extremist Stephan B. tried to storm the synagogue in Halle and shoot the assembled community members on the highest Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur.
The attack failed because the synagogue door was secured and the homemade weapons jammed.
He then shot two people in the city.
B. was sentenced to life imprisonment followed by preventive detention.
(so with afp)