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Berlin (AP) - The Liberal Conservative Reformers (LKR) have added two more members of the state parliament to their ranks who had previously turned their backs on the AfD.
As the federal chairman Jürgen Joost announced on Thursday, the small party will in future also be represented in the state parliament of Schleswig-Holstein through the inclusion of Frank Brodehl.
In Lower Saxony, the former state and parliamentary group chairman of the AfD, Dana Guth, joined the LKR.
This means that the party, which emerged in 2015 from a split of economically liberal and conservative forces from the AfD, is already present with two members in the state parliament of Hanover.
Before Guth, the former AfD member Jens Ahrends had already joined the LKR.
After Ahrends was accepted, Joost had declared: "It is right and necessary that former AfD members who have behaved decently and refuse to take over right-wing extremists are offered a political perspective to get out of the matter with decency."
At the same time, he emphasized that the LKR was not a catchment basin for dissatisfied AfD members, but had also taken in a number of members who had previously been involved in other parties or not at all politically active.
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The LKR also includes two members of the Bundestag who were once in the AfD, Uwe Kamann and Mario Mieruch from North Rhine-Westphalia.
Mieruch has taken over the post of general secretary in the LKR.
The founding of the LKR goes back to the split in the AfD in summer 2015.
At that time, AfD founder Bernd Lucke and several representatives of the economically liberal wing had founded their own party in protest against a shift to the right by the AfD that they noted.
This Euro-critical party was first called ALFA.
She had to rename herself after a name dispute.
She wants to run nationwide for the 2021 federal election.
Luck is now an LKR member without a management position.