The Bavarian AfD does not come to rest, even shortly before the European elections. Under pressure from the party base to an early party Congress will be prepared. Group head of Ebner-Steiner makes an announcement.

Update, 14. May 2019: After weeks of internal party squabbles of Bavaria AfD parliamentary group chief Katrin Ebner-Steiner has announced their withdrawal from the AfD Board of Directors- – currently she is the Deputy Chairman. “I want to concentrate on my task as a Chairman. Therefore, I do not plan to run again for office in the Board of Directors of the AfD in Bavaria,“ – said in a written statement Ebner-Steiner’s, from Tuesday evening, the first of the Bavarian radio reported. They are Not advocated at the same time for a ratio of 75 per cent mandate-holders in the AfD national Board of Directors. “The separation of office and mandate, should be the rule and not the exception,” she claims.

uprising in Bavaria-AfD – down the base now, Ebner-Steiner and co.?

Munich – The intra-party power struggles in the Bavarian AfD to run to a new peak: It will be before the summer break, a party, possibly with a early re-election of the entire national Executive, said the country Chairman Martin Secures on Tuesday and confirmed the appropriate information from party circles. There is a whole series of circular associations “with the requirement that a party Congress would be” on the Board, therefore, would be to invite “a timely manner”. As the earliest possible date, the last weekend in June is in the conversation, is also possible in one of the following July, would be the end of the week.

party internal turmoil in the AfD: Early elections of the national Executive?

In the Bavarian AfD busy, busy, busy for many weeks. The headlines for the group, especially resignations of two provincial deputies, including the former group chief Markus Plenk, the place may be granted asylum in the CSU, such as Merkur.de* reported. Then vented out of the litter of another parliamentarian, as well as the Trouble to two finally, the redundant group of employees. In the centre of the criticism, among other things, a parliamentary group chief Katrin Ebner-Steiner, a Familiar of the Thuringian AfD Rechtsaußens Björn Höcke. You are accused of Parts of the base “power games”. So far, Ebner-Steiner is also Vice-AfD country Director.

+ Martin Secures, Chairman of the AfD in Bavaria, speaks at the political ash Wednesday of the AfD. ©picture alliance/dpa / Matthias Balk

Open Sicherts, according to whether actually the regular for the autumn planned re-election of the entire national Executive is preferred or not. This was the preference of the district associations, which had last taken the Initiative, said. If it should so come, the need and the national Board of Directors will decide. Opt-out requests against single or multiple country members of the Board may be up to two weeks before a party Congress, he explained. So far, no such requests were met.

AfD in the Landtag isolated: Huge ditches between the AfD and the other groups

Meanwhile, were in the Parliament, the trenches between the AfD and all the other groups, again, obviously. The parliamentary Manager of the AfD, Christoph Maier pointed, criticism of the Singing of the first verse of the German national anthem (“Germany, Germany above everything”) at a meeting of the AfD-“wing” back. All the other political groups accused the AfD, with an Initiative according to which all members of staff present, in the future, a certificate of good conduct should, to the Keeper of the integrity of the Parliament of install – it was just the AfD, with its own staff problems. Several speakers alluded to the fact that the AfD parliamentary group recently had dismissed two employees, which is about NPD has been accused of proximity.

the AfD was also Isolated in another vote: the votes of all other factions of the Parliament decided on an increase of the members-diets – and this is based on the General income development in Bavaria. This increase in rejected Maier, among other things, with criticism of “irresponsible migration policies” of the SPD and the Greens. “Every Euro is too much,” said AfD Deputy.

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