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The AfD leadership continues to discuss party leader Jörg Meuthen’s speech at the party’s federal conference last weekend. “The tone, timing and content of this speech were not fit for a president,” the chairman of the parliamentary group, Alexander Gauland, said in Braunschweig on Saturday. “It would have been his job to bring the party together, not get rid of parts.”
In Kalkar, Meuthen had delivered an inflammatory speech against the ethnic part of the party. Among other things, he harshly criticized the rhetoric of some colleagues from the AfD: “We will no longer achieve success by appearing more and more aggressive, more and more rude and more and more uninhibited.” At SPIEGEL, the völkisch wing asked Meuthen to relive the content.
Rarely has a speech had such an impact, Gauland told an AfD meeting to draw up a state list for federal elections. “Nobody talks about our concept of pensions, it just doesn’t matter.” Gauland also spoke of a “steep bill” for the protection of the constitution. Don’t assume that Meuthen wanted this. “But I should have thought about it longer.” Meuthen had spoken of “provocateurs” in his own ranks and urged the party to discipline before the 2021 election year.
