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Berlin (dpa) - The Liberal Conservative Reformers (LKR) are getting more and more members of parliament for whom the AfD has become too radical.
As the federal chairman of the small party, Jürgen Joost, announced on Friday, his party has now also accepted Peter Beck, the former state chairman of the AfD-Bremen and member of the Bremen citizenship.
Previously, two non-attached members of the Bundestag who were previously with the AfD, two former AfD members from Lower Saxony and a former AfD member from Schleswig-Holstein had already joined 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.
Today Lucke is a member of the LKR without a management position.
Beck had turned his back on the AfD just this week.
He justified his resignation by saying that he and other representatives of the moderate camp in the Bremen AfD had not succeeded in asserting themselves against politicians like Frank Magnitz or Thomas Jürgewitz.
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In order to sound out its chances with the voters, the LKR had commissioned a representative survey from the polling institute Insa.
According to the party, it emerged that 22 percent of voters could imagine “voting for a newly emerging party with a clear, conservative and economically liberal orientation in the upcoming federal election”.
The pollsters also found that the LKR was only known to six percent of those surveyed.
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