The AfD may politician André Poggenburg hold for two years, no political party offices. The Federal Executive of the party decided.
Berlin/Magdeburg – Saxony-Anhalt state Parliament member and former Chairman Poggenburg was irritated a lot of people at a party of friends previously with pithy sayings on Twitter. AfD-Federal-Board member Kay Gottschalk confirmed on Tuesday evening the decision of the party leadership.
Poggenburg, adorns his Twitter profile recently with a blue cornflower, had written in the short message service on new year’s eve: “The citizens of our national community a healthy, peaceful and Patriotic 2019!” Gottschalk said afterwards: “This is a desperate attempt to gain attention in a personally hopeless Situation. That doesn’t change the fact: this choice of words is unacceptable.” Poggenburg is the Chairman of the AfD in the castle district. He can lock against the posts in front of the AfD-the land court of arbitration in Saxony-Anhalt actions.
After several controversial Speeches was entered the name validly published in March 2018 internal pressure as a party and parliamentary leader in Saxony – Anhalt. Later it came to differences of opinion between him and other leading members of the legal national “wing” in the AfD. Its best-known representatives of the Thuringian state chief Björn Höcke.
dpa
