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Berlin (dpa) - The former AfD state chairman Andreas Kalbitz, who was excluded from the AfD, is not applying as a candidate for the federal election in September.
Kalbitz wrote on Facebook on Saturday evening that he “decided after careful consideration not to consider running for the Bundestag”.
He accused parts of the federal executive committee of “inability to lead and unsuccessful”.
The AfD is therefore in a “tense and politically weakened situation within the party”.
He does not want to promote "existing centrifugal forces".
The AfD Oberspreewald-Lausitz wants to meet on Sunday to list the direct candidates for the federal election in constituency 65.
A “Democratic Senftenberg” alliance has announced a demonstration against Kalbitz's possible candidacy.
Kalbitz had not previously commented publicly on the subject.
The national board of the AfD had revoked Kalbitz's membership in the AfD in May of last year because he had concealed earlier contacts with the right-wing extremist milieu.
The federal arbitration court confirmed the exclusion.
Kalbitz belonged to the "wing" of the party, which has now formally dissolved and is classified as right-wing extremist by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.
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Kalbitz on Facebook