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Stuttgart (dpa / lsw) - A tandem top candidate for the state election is off the table for the AfD.
State parliamentary group leader Bernd Gögel and his vice Emil Sänze received only 35.1 percent of the votes in an online vote among AfD members.
That's why they withdrew their application, Gögel told the “Stuttgarter Zeitung” and the “Stuttgarter Nachrichten” (Friday).
The majority of the members do not want a dual leadership.
The 66-year-old said: "You have to respect that."
In addition, two individual candidates applied for the top candidate.
The 50-year-old Hans-Jürgen Goßner, candidate for the state parliament in the constituency of Göppingen, received 22.2 percent of the vote.
The commercial employee from Ebersbach an der Fils wants to continue to be the front man of the AfD in the election campaign.
The 40-year-old political scientist Jan-Hendrik Czada, who is nominated as a candidate for the state parliament in the constituency of Aalen, got 16 percent.
According to the AfD, over 1,000 of the roughly 4,500 members in the country have cast their votes.
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