The rightwing politician André Poggenburg has left the AfD and the party’s Executive Committee for a farewell to sharp criticism. The member of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt and a former country party leader confirmed to the German press Agency on Friday that he has declared, with immediate effect leaving the party. Poggenburg, struck in the past by verbal gaffes, has founded the “world” according to a new party: With her he wanted to compete in the autumn regional elections in Saxony, Thuringia and Brandenburg.
The differences with the AfD party leadership in Berlin had assumed, “ultimately, an unbridgeable extent, so I’ve decided to have my political struggle for this country outside of the AfD to continue,” said Poggenburg of the “world”. In addition, the parties have broken promises, which is why it is only the outlet. Poggenburgs conclusion: “it is often perceived as a really Patriotic Alternative and has lost a lot of credibility.”
Quite different to according to the report, with the party that I founded, the 43-Year-old on Thursday in Saxony, under the name “awakening of the German patriots of Central Germany”. In the night he posted this on his Facebook page photos, which seem to be the name and Logo of the new grouping to show. On the website www.aufbruch-deutsche-patrioten.de a Logo of the party with the note: “We start in the next few days”. The new party also already has a Facebook page, you for the 16. January invites you to a new year’s reception to Dohma.
AdP Central Germany: the Logo of a new party?Photo: Screenshot of Facebook page Poggenburg
you have connected to the “world”according to a report in still more disappointed AfD members. The Board of the new party, Egbert Ermer and Benjamin Przybylla heard so far, the Saxon AfD sitting. “Spiegel Online” had quoted Ermer on Thursday with the sentence: “the project of The party establishment starts today.” It is planned to have a “Central German” movement, with branches in Brandenburg and Saxony.
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the name validly published criticized a hysteria in the AfD, behind the the fear of an impending observation by the constitutional’m protection. However, he himself was irritated a lot of people are repeat party friends with pithy sayings. Last Poggenburg had wished for on new year’s eve on Twitter “The citizens of our national community a healthy, peaceful and Patriotic 2019!”.
Always controversial performances
Last year, Poggenburg had been vilified in a speech at the political ash Wednesday in Germany, Turks living package as “cumin dealer” and “camel driver”, which would have in this country, “nothing to seek and nothing to report”. In June 2017, the release was, to him, internal Chat logs from the national Association of Saxony-Anhalt, a complaint by the party Executive: Poggenburg had used in the Chat the Slogan “Germany for the Germans” and an “extension of the speculated outer limits”.
In a group meeting on Thursday in Magdeburg, his party colleague of him called for a “clear and sincere” commitment to the AfD. It is a application for exclusion had been brought “to the Board,” said the Parliamentary Secretary Robert Farle a few hours before Poggenburgs resignation.
On Wednesday Poggenburg had left still open the question of whether he will remain in the AfD, and of the group in Saxony-Anhalt. However, the former small businessman said: “When the Logo and the thing for which it is taken, moving away further and further from each other, one must decide at some point whether you want to follow the Logo or the thing.” So he stoked speculation about a party establishment under his leadership.
He and his colleagues saw the AfD, in spite of the differences of opinion, but “not our political opponents”, but as “allies,” said Poggenburg of the “world”. They wanted to complement the party “in the medium German space.” In cooperation with the NPD will not be “planned”.
After several controversial Speeches, in which he also used vocabulary from the Nazi era, was the name validly published in March 2018 internal pressure as a party and parliamentary leader in Saxony-Anhalt, resigned. Later, he had differences of opinion with other leading members of the right national wing of the AfD. Its best-known representatives of the Thuringian state chief Björn Höcke.
According to Poggenburgs resignation of the AfD faction chief in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, Uwe, Young wrote on Twitter: “Finally – I hope he takes all the fools hem and the self-appointed patriots!” The sociologist Jutta Ditfurth on Twitter, the question of whether Poggenburgs leaving the way for CDU coalitions with the AfD at the country level should make.
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