AfD
Afd: The story of a controversial party
No other party provides so many scandals, such as the AfD. What was formed in 2013 as a Euro-critical party, oriented to the right. An Overview of the right-wing populist party in 10 points.
06. February 2013: The date of establishment of the Alternative for Germany (AfD). Bernd Lucke, Frauke Petry and Konrad Adam, party spokesman for the Euro-critical party to be. The AfD finds a lot of encouragement: Within a few months the members increases the number to about 20,000.
22. September 2013: With 4.7 per cent, missed out on the AfD, although just moving into the German Parliament, the Bundestag, celebrates the election result as a great success. Especially the CDU, the FDP and The Left party will lose voters to the young party.
25. May 2014: The AfD reached 7.1 per cent in the European election, with hatch as the top candidate and moves in with seven deputies to the European Parliament.
August/September 2014: The AfD moves for the first time in the country days in Saxony, Brandenburg and Thuringia. Frauke Petry, Alexander Gauland and Björn Chairman, all representatives of the right wing of the party will be Höcke.
By the end of 2014/beginning of 2015: One in the direction of dispute within the party and a related power struggle between Petry and the hatch is clear. The right wing in order to Petry seeks talks with islam-and xenophobic Pegida movement, and calls for Luckes’s resignation. The most prominent party member Hans-Olaf Henkel from the Board.
Björn Höcke: with his Comments for Trouble
04./05. July 2015: Frauke Petry and Jörg Meuthen be at the Essen Congress of the party to the new leadership elected – a clear defeat for the moderate wing. Lucke then exits the AfD, more than 2,000 party members. However, the party benefited from the refugee debate, and is recovering rapidly from the outlet shaft: Many citizens are dissatisfied with Merkel’s refugee policy and to apply the AfD, the rise in the number of members. Petry evaluates the change of power as a kind of liberation. Lucke founded the Alliance for progress and awakening, his new party, however, remains largely unsuccessful.
Autumn 2015: Björn Höcke, has made headlines: The AfD-politician organised in Erfurt demonstrations against Merkel’s refugee policy, in which there are multiple acts of violence against representatives of the press. Höcke speaks of the “life-affirming African-propagation type” and occurs when Günther Jauch talk show on ARD with a Germany flag in order to show the viewers”, the AfD, the voice of the people speaks”. The party leadership distancing itself from the group Chairman.
January 2016: Petry provides another media scandal, as the use of weapons in case of illegal crossing of the border calls. Shortly thereafter, she returns to her testimony and pushes the blame on the “Pinocchio-press”. The Deputy speaker of the Beatrix von Storch speaks on Facebook, to let kids and women shoot. Also von Storch your statement into perspective a little later.
Frauke Petry and Jörg Meuthen: in the strife
May 2016: Deputy party spokesperson Gauland is expressed in an Interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday newspaper racist against national football player Jérôme Boateng. The Public is indignant, self-Petry distancing itself – another intra-party conflict is indicated.
July 2016: It sparked a dispute with the baden-württemberg Landtag deputies
Wolfgang Gedeon due to antisem tables Statements. Gedeon leaves the group, the battle for the lead between Meuthen and Petry coming to a head. The polls-values slide to the lowest value in 2016.