After the electoral defeat of the AfD members Mariana Harder-Kühnel in the election for a Vice-President of the Bundestag in the third start-up, the group wants to nominate a new candidate. The party leaders, Alice rye and Alexander Gauland told on Thursday evening.

the AfD Leader, Alexander Gauland, announced after the election, the AfD will in the future set-up at every opportunity for new candidates for the Vice President’s office.

accused Gauland the other parliamentary groups in the Bundestag. The Co-chair Alice rye said, it is one of the democratic Rights of the largest opposition group, that it is represented in the Bundestag Presidium. Harder-Kühnel was a “spotless candidate”, as well as the front of her failed AfD candidate, Albrecht Glaser. The AfD will appoint at the next group meeting a new candidate.

The 44-Year-old got on Thursday in a secret ballot, only 199 votes in favour, 423 MEPs voted against, and 43 abstained. In the third ballot only the majority of the votes cast would have been necessary. In the previous two rounds of voting, the absolute majority of the 709 members of Parliament was necessary.

at the beginning of the parliamentary term, had the other factions already have the AfD’s Deputy, Albrecht Glaser in three rounds of voting by fall.

After a request from the AfD, after the ballot of the meeting for an hour break, was rejected, left the group, closed the plenary session.

The AfD stands as the largest opposition party, in principle, a Vice-President post. Your Parliamentary Secretary Bernd Baumann mentioned previously, the behavior of the other groups, a “monkey theatre”. Harder-Kühnel had in the first ballot on 29. November in a secret ballot 223 of 654 votes received, 387 deputies voted against it. In the second vote on the 13. December voted 241 MPs for and 377 against, 41 abstained.

Harder-Kühnel was presented recently to representatives of all the groups except the Left.

Among other things, the CDU/CSU parliamentary group Chairman Ralph Brinkhaus wanted to vote in the third run for the AfD candidate. He had decided after a conversation with her to take this step, said the CDU-politician, according to data from groups of Participants in a meeting of the Union group. Previously FDP party leader Christian Lindner announced that he would vote for the AfD-wife, in order to offer the party any opportunity to make themselves out as martyrs the style. “The German Bundestag holds,” said Lindner.

Harder-Kühnel was presented recently to representatives of all the groups except the Left. There have not been any reservations about you as a Person, she reported later, only against the party that you represent. The left group showed, according to the AfD-politician with no interest in a conversation.

Many of the members were in a Dilemma, she said last Monday. “On the one hand, you have a Problem with the AfD. On the other hand, you know that the AfD is entitled as the largest opposition group, a seat on the Bureau.“ They knew also that the AfD’ve come up with a candidate, “against whose election you reasonably can’t argue”.

The 44-Year-old is a lawyer and represents the constituency of Main-Kinzig-Wetterau II-Schotten, adjacent to Frankfurt. She was the top candidate of the AfD in the state of Hesse. The mother of three children, is one of the most politically and in the tone of the more moderate members of the AfD group in the Bundestag. Krawalliges Occur, as some in your party, is foreign to her.

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Harder-Kühnel is a very conservative family policy. Child benefit payments for children living abroad, declines. She warns: “We want to awaken in women the consciousness that their centuries-won freedoms and rights circles due to the immigration of people from the world of culture, in which some of the archaic notions of the role of women, are in danger.” (Tsp, dpa)