Tino Chrupalla remains party leader of the AfD. At the federal party conference of the AfD in Riesa on Saturday, the 47-year-old received the majority of the votes cast (53.45 percent). As expected, Alice Weidel was elected second chair. She got 67.3 percent of the votes of the delegates.
Tino Chrupalla remains party leader of the AfD. At the federal party conference in Riesa, Saxony, the 47-year-old received 287 of 538 votes (53.4 percent) on Saturday. His opponent Norbert Kleinwächter got 195 votes (36.3 percent). 55 delegates voted against both candidates. There was one abstention.
Alice Weidel is promoted to co-chair of the AfD. At the federal party conference in Riesa, Saxony, the delegates elected her second, equal federal spokeswoman (67.3 percent) alongside Tino Chrupalla. Weidel already leads the parliamentary group with Chrupalla and was previously deputy party leader.
At the delegates’ meeting, which lasts until Sunday, the entire federal executive board, which last consisted of 13 members, will be reassigned. This will also decide on the future course of the AfD – depending on how many representatives of the respective party current can secure a post in the body.
Chrupalla has been at the helm since November 2019. In his first election at the party congress in Braunschweig at the time, he got 54.5 percent of the votes. The master craftsman from Saxony led the AfD alone after the departure of ex-co-boss Jörg Meuthen. Meuthen had certified the AfD an increasingly radical course. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified the party as a suspected right-wing extremist.
Critics within the party, who consider themselves to be in the moderate camp, openly attacked the party leader after the recent loss of votes in several state elections and accused him, among other things, of not being able to score points in the West. You have to “get away from the angry citizens’ party”. They also criticize Chrupalla’s course as being too pro-Russian and associate it with leaving the party.
