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Status: 09/22/2020 5:30 pm – NDR 1 Lower Saxony
The three MPs Jens Ahrends, Stefan Wirtz and Dana Guth (from left) announced their departure from the AfD parliamentary group on Tuesday. (Screenshot)
The AfD parliamentary group in the Lower Saxony state parliament has been dissolved. The group’s former leader, Dana Guth, and MPs Stefan Wirtz and Jens Ahrends announced their departure on Tuesday. The AfD loses its status as a parliamentary group in the state parliament: because the remaining six members represent less than five percent of the state parliament, the parliamentary group would dissolve when it leaves.
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Founding a new parliamentary group?
“The three of us decided today, after the events of the last ten days, to leave the group,” said Guth der “Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung” (HAZ). But that doesn’t have to be the end of the AfD in the state parliament. The three politicians apparently want to stay in the party and Guth wants to try to found a new AfD parliamentary group, a bourgeois-conservative, as she put it. You made an offer to four deputies. .
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Guth, Kestner and the “wing”
The faction split came a day after the postponement of the new AfD faction head election, for which Guth actually wanted to run again. The escalation is apparently related to the election of the board of directors. new state president Jens Kestner. He is close to the controversial Björn Höcke and thus to the formally disbanded völkisch “wing” of the party. In the AfD of Lower Saxony, there has been a power struggle between moderate and more radical forces in the party for a long time. Kestner had replaced Guth at the head of the state party.
AfD 2017 for the first time in the state parliament
The AfD entered parliament in Hannover for the first time in the 2017 state elections with a result of 6.2 percent. The group’s loss of strength means the AfD will have fewer parliamentary rights in the state parliament in the future.
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