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A study has been announced for some time on the website of the publisher Götz Kubitschek. “Does the AfD fail?” It is the title, the work was published in the company’s own “Institute of State Policy”.
It’s also about the trajectory of party leader Jörg Meuthen and that part of the AfD, who in May ensured that then-Brandenburg AfD president Andreas Kalbitz would lose his membership rights with a board decision.
Kubitschek, editor of the right and not of the AfD itself, is considered one of the closest comrades of the Thuringia far right, Björn Höcke, the main figure of the party’s “wing” network, which has now been officially dissolved and classified. as a far-right network for constitutional protection.
Defeat of Höckes?
Kubitschek has yet to get onto his website about the latest AfD federal party conference in Kalkar, in which Meuthen slammed the right wing of the AfD with his speech and narrowly escaped a request for disapproval on Sunday, contrary to other customs.
Kalkar, as Meuthen’s supporters in the AfD see it, was also Höcke’s defeat. Thuringian himself never approached the lectern, but he got involved. Herr Höcke, show yourself. You are the shooter in the background, ”said Berlin AfD District Councilor Andreas Otti on Sunday in the room.
However, apparently, Höcke did not act as successfully as at the time when Kalbitz was still by his side. Kalbitz was considered a “wing” organizer until he lost his AfD membership rights by a board resolution. He was accused of not being a member of the neo-Nazi HDJ when he joined the party. Kalbitz denies ever being a member and is suing the court for his return to the party. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution has a HDJ membership number. Veal
Kalbitz is not completely out, however, as a non-partisan member of the AfD parliamentary group in Brandenburg, in October he traveled to the crisis region of Nagorno-Karabakh with an AfD travel group. He followed Kalkar on the screen. “Jörg Meuthen’s sometimes divisive derailments,” Kalbitz told SPIEGEL, were an expression of “personal nervousness, loss of his connection to the party base and shocking political ineptitude reflected in the current poll results.” .
Majority for Meuthen on the federal board
In Kalkar, Meuthen saw it the other way around: the action by two AfD MPs, through which far-right bloggers reached the Bundestag and harassed MPs, had an immediate effect on a Forsa poll in which the AfD reached seven percent. In the 2017 federal elections he achieved 12.6 percent.
Meuthen, as seen by his fans, has earned a point at Kalkar. “One had the impression that Kalbitz was not there. He went around in party congresses and brought together the Höcke majorities, “said an AfD member who wants to remain anonymous.
Several positions had to be re-elected: Among other things, with Treasurer Carsten Hütter from Saxony, his vice Christian Waldheim from Schleswig-Holstein and Bundestag member Joana Cotar from Hesse, who was promoted by Kalbitz, three representatives came to the federal executive board which are counted as the so-called moderate field.
Cotar, once a brief member of the CDU, had defended the coup against Kalbitz in an interview after his election. He had “no other choice but to decide to pull.”
At that time they were still at a party together: Andreas Kalbitz, Björn Höcke and Stephan Brandner
Photo: RONALD WITTEK / EPA-EFE / REX
The 47-year-old is now one of 15 members of the AfD federal executive board, only honorary president Alexander Gauland has no voting rights there. The Meuthen camp has been referring to ten voting representatives since the weekend, against four representatives who once opposed the expulsion of Kalbitz from the committee, including the leader of the parliamentary group Alice Weidel and the leader of the Meuthen party, Tino Chrupalla.
But Weidel and Chrupalla, who are currently being traded as a possible top team for the 2021 federal election campaign, are not fighting for Kalbitz, as has become clear in recent months.
Gauland acts differently, who criticized the way in which the membership was canceled and is based on a final decision before a civil court.
Meuthen wants to prevent his party from being observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. But how strong are his followers really? Kalkar was a criterion. In the elections, the so-called moderates achieved results of just over 50 percent. Meuthen was supported mostly by Western regional associations, and there was some harsh criticism from the East. After all, it turned out that Meuthen’s supporters also obviously know how to network, against Höcke and Co.
He sits on the federal executive committee with Thuringian member of the Bundestag and party vice president Stephan Brandner, a supporter of Höcke. Brandner called Meuthen’s speech to SPIEGEL “remarkable, but out of place and politically reckless.” “Unfortunately,” Meuthen continued “on the wrong track” that began in the spring, namely the expulsion of Kalbitz. “Obviously, he doesn’t get smart because of the damage,” Brandner says. The lawyer wants Meuthen to refrain from such “superfluous and harmful polarization within the party” in the future, to act immediately in the interests of the party and to focus on the political opponent “who is outside the AfD”. With the newly elected colleagues, Brandner adds, he hopes “good cooperation.”
Brandner’s words, however, do not sound like a peace agreement. Meuthen and his followers know it.
In Kalkar, the party leader for the conditions of the AfD dared to go further with his speech and, facing the course of Sunday, he went even further and declared that whoever does not like that, “must present a motion to vote at the next party conference. “
In fact, the regular board elections are only one year after the general elections. Before that, there should be another party congress in the spring, in which the best team can be chosen for the federal elections. Will the far right take the fight against Meuthen there? Just before the election campaign?
In other matches this could probably be denied. This does not apply to a party like AfD.
