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In September, the dispute over the leadership of the AfD in Lower Saxony caused the breakdown of the state faction. Now, former Lower Saxony AfD party leader and parliamentary group Dana Guth has left the party.
Guth said he left the AfD on Thursday due to “undesirable developments.” “The red lines were injured.” Compared to the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR), he spoke of a “coup and a stab” within the party.
Guth, who considers himself a moderate, was defeated by Bundestag member Jens Kestner in the election of the president at a state party conference in mid-September. Shortly after, the parliamentary group left with two fellow campaigners, thus losing its status as a parliamentary group.
Guth told the NDR that the party was deeply divided. There are many bourgeois members, but the officially dissolved right is increasingly taking control. “What the hardcore wing reps want in this country is something I can’t relate to,” Guth said.
Kestner told the NDR that Guth’s departure from the game did not surprise him. “Of course, he would like to anticipate exclusion from the match.” On Guth’s allegations of dominance of the wing, Kestner said: “The wing has dissolved and it is no longer necessary to talk about what has been dissolved because it no longer exists.”
