In the case of the Alternative for Germany, a further shift to the right is – fierce internal party fighting, including. This also has to do with the upcoming elections in the East of Germany.
The power struggle between Radicals and Moderates in the German right-wing populists is as old as the party itself. Some of the party Chairman, including Frauke Petry, had rooms therefore in place. Have won so far, always the Radical, and the AfD piece advanced for the piece to the right. So far, that the constitutional protection was active and part of the party of right-wing extremism is suspected.
The last fight made it barely makes headlines. Party leader Alexander Gauland held his hands protectively over everyone in the party. For him, it is a question of political skill, the right edge to include.
The Radicals call themselves “The wing”, your boss, Björn Höcke, an official party organization, you are not. Roughly speaking, the “wing” in the East, set the tone, in the West there are the Moderates – even though the changes may be just.
AfD wants to avoid observation by the protection of the Constitution
Two things have ensured that the power struggle in the AfD flares up again. The protection of the Constitution is a reason for that.
The post Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein, symbolizes the power struggle in the AfD
The AfD got, so to speak, a period of grace – yet, the AfD does not appear in the current report of the authority. The AfD’s leadership reacted to the warning with a series of party exclusion procedures. The Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein, AfD’s Director in Schleswig-Holstein with dubious contacts met, among other things, to the openly right-wing extremist camp. She is the “wing” is very popular. Their loyal supporters, they confirmed recently despite the threat of party expulsion as Chairman.
The party leadership in Berlin was cooking, after all you had to do you want to have with reference to extreme-right influences in the way, to the protection of the Constitution to accommodate. Displeasure about this “buckling” in front of the German domestic secret was last heard more and more in AfD circles.
“Wings”-husband Thomas skirts man now leads the largest country in the Association of AfD
The second province in the West, which is now “wings”-the country, i.e. North Rhine-Westphalia. In the most populous state, the AfD has approximately 5300 members – for a total of about 34,000 members in Germany. On a turbulent party conference, it came to an open struggle for power. Result: by the end of the year, three “wings”-people, who run the Events. Bayern could be the next state. Here, too, a power of raging battle.
The election result in the East to change the party
The second Trend is the success of the AfD in East-Germany. According to surveys, you might be in the state elections in the fall of even the strongest force in Brandenburg and Saxony. In Thuringia, it performs only a little worse. The demo of telescopes you see in the three countries at 20-25 percent. In the West consent is lower, at around 10 percent, part also. Of leading AfD politicians from the East – more radical is listening to for weeks, a self-conscious Message to: – the way is evidently successful.
At the annual meeting of the “wing”, the so-called “Kyffhäuser-Meet”, at the weekend called “wings”-the leader Björn Höcke Temperate in North Rhine-Westphalia, if you wanted to make the AfD a “FDP 2.0”, whether in his party, out of place: “in the FDP, and leave us alone!”, so Höcke.
Höcke soon in the party leadership?
AfD-right Höcke held in the past three years, in the Background – this seems to be over. He openly criticized the Federal Board, voice of bugs inside, and in dealing with the media and wasted energy for the actual task, to hunt, namely “the political Establishment”.
There will soon be new faces in the AfD leadership?
This year’s party, Board of Directors and management are elected. Höcke promised a different composition. Observers think he strut into the Board. Fittingly, he called for “programmatic shifts” as an even more restrictive immigration policy. The AfD needs to go the way of a “solidarity-based Patriotism”. At the end he repeated his outside of the AfD is highly controversial claim, it had to be in the culture of memory, a turn away from the “Blame culture”. The Germans are supposed to be a “happy and lively people,” and so be able to live like other peoples.
September 2018: Björn Höcke in the case of joint marching with extreme Right-wing in Chemnitz
How serious the situation is from their point of view, again, the AfD-Aussteigerin and book author Franziska Schreiber took on the weekend in Berlin. She had met the party up to the top. The extreme right-wing ideas had to be stronger, as you can see from the outside – and, as writers, Höcke was a “staunch neo-Nazi”.