On the last day of the AfD federal party conference in Riesa, Saxony, there was a heated argument on Sunday on the subject of foreign and Russia policy. The federal party conference ended prematurely.
The AfD ended its federal party conference prematurely after a bitter dispute over a Europe resolution. On Sunday in Riesa, Saxony, 55.65 percent of the delegates voted for the premature end, 44.35 percent voted no.
The background to the dispute was a motion for a resolution on Europe, whose supporters included honorary chairman Alexander Gauland and Thuringian state chief Björn Höcke.
AfD boss Alice Weidel called for the paper to be revised in terms of language and content. There are very “unspecific sentences” that “also sound very bulky,” she said. Member of the Bundestag Thomas Seitz criticized the fact that the text “not once” contained the word war and that a Ukraine conflict was “completely played down”. Such papers would really get the party in trouble in the West, he said.
Other delegates campaigned vehemently for adoption. The AfD member of parliament Hans-Thomas Tillschneider from Saxony-Anhalt said that the application contained “exactly the terms and orientations that we as an embassy have to send to the outside world. The contrast between globalists and nation-states – that is the world struggle in which we stand, and that is clearly stated here”.
Various applications for not dealing with the topic and referral for advice in specialist committees failed. There was a loud argument between the delegates. Party leader Tino Chrupalla was also unable to get his way with the proposal to first discuss the paper again in the federal executive board.
Among other things, the proposed resolution advocates a “consensual dissolution of the EU”, which is described as a “misguided and dysfunctional political entity”.
