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Braunschweig (dpa) - At the AfD in Lower Saxony, the dispute about the direction of the party is smoldering - today it will be shown in Braunschweig whether the conflict also determines the list for the federal election.
At the beginning, the chairman of the AfD parliamentary group, Alexander Gauland, and the AfD federal chairman Tino Chrupalla are announced as speakers.
Unlike other parties, the AfD does not switch to an online event despite Corona, around 500 AfD members are expected in Braunschweig.
At two protest rallies against the AfD meeting, the police are expecting around 300 participants.
The dispute over direction in Lower Saxony broke out openly in late summer, when the AfD member of the Bundestag Jens Kestner was elected to succeed Dana Guth, who is considered to be moderate.
Up to now, Kestner was assigned to the now officially dissolved, völkisch-nationalist "wing".
When Guth was to be replaced as parliamentary group chairman, she and two members of the parliamentary group resigned, which then broke up.
In protest against a shift to the right by the AfD in Lower Saxony, Guth also resigned from the party on Thursday.
Guth criticized the fact that the assembly meeting was organized without any temporal emergency in the middle of the Corona crisis so that the right wing in the state association could fill the positions on the list of candidates.
The list of applicants published by the AfD regional association includes Kestner as well as the former state chairman Armin-Paul Hampel, who may again be the top candidate for the federal election.