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Dresden (AP) - The AfD wants to go into the election campaign for the federal election as an anti-ban party.
At their federal party conference with 600 delegates in the Dresden trade fair, chairman Jörg Meuthen celebrated his party on Saturday for documenting its presence in this way.
The AfD wants to “show that these orgies of prohibition, this locking up, this lockdown madness, that none of this is necessary if you trust the people,” Meuthen said at the opening of the two-day event with a view to Corona.
The AfD wants to adopt its program for the federal election on September 26th.
The AfD goes with the slogan “Germany.
But normal »in the election campaign.
This “normality” has been destroyed in the past 16 years by Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU) and the ruling parties, said Meuthen, “accompanied by socialist opposition parties such as the so-called Greens and the Left, for whom this destruction is not far and not fast enough goes ».
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Meuthen also quoted the CDU slogan of the 1976 federal election campaign: “Freedom instead of socialism”.
Today the AfD stands for freedom, the Greens stand for socialism, said Meuthen, who leads the party together with the Saxon Bundestag member Tino Chrupalla.
Unlike at the party congress in Kalkar, North Rhine-Westphalia, last November, Meuthen did not address the internal rivalries and disputes within the party this time.
«We have to be ready to take responsibility.
The others all fail, it comes up to us, inevitably.
We just have to get it right, offer, demonstrate, explain our superior solutions, ”he said.
Meuthen gave the state elections in Saxony-Anhalt on June 6th a key position in this year's elections.
"If we do it right this time, we have a great chance in this election of becoming the strongest political force in a state for the first time and even with some distance."
For the first time in the history of the AfD, this would be accompanied by the mandate to form a government.
That is why you need «maximum commitment» for this state election campaign.
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Before the party congress, Bundestag parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel said goodbye to the race for the top candidacy for the federal election.
She justified this on Saturday with the tussle over the initially still unresolved procedure for the nomination of one or two top candidates.
"On the one hand, the federal party congress, as the highest decision-making body, is asked to decide on the candidacy, on the other hand, a member survey was initiated in advance by the majority of the federal board, the result of which cannot be ignored," explained Weidel.
Chrupalla spoke out in an interview with the broadcaster Phoenix against a primary election of the AfD top candidates for the federal election.
This is not practicable: "There will not be enough time for a pure primary election (...) The delegates will decide today whether we should continue to do another survey (...) and we will put that in their hands."
Chrupalla did not rule out becoming a top candidate himself: "If (the party) wishes that I should become one of the top candidates, then I will not ignore this wish."
In a member survey, the majority of the participating AfD members argued that the question of the top candidacy should not be clarified by the federal party conference, but later by the members.
At the federal party congress on Saturday, a majority of the delegates voted against the election of a top candidate or a top team at the party congress.
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There were protests on the sidelines of the party congress.
According to the police, around 100 people took part in a bicycle parade.
They later blocked an access road to the exhibition grounds, so that many participants at the party conference had to take a detour.
The party congress started late.
Dozens of people protested against the AfD's policies right in front of the exhibition hall.
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