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Dresden (AP) - The AfD does not yet want to determine a top candidate for the federal election.
At a federal party congress in Dresden on Saturday, a majority of the delegates voted against the election of a top candidate or a top team at the party congress.
Instead, the members of the party should decide at a later date.
Member of the Bundestag Gottfried Curio, among others, spoke out against a decision at the party congress.
He said: "Otherwise we will never again be credible as a grassroots party."
Around 87 percent of the participants in a member survey voted for the top candidate question not to be decided by the delegates in Dresden, but later by all members.
The Saxon state and parliamentary group chairman, Jörg Urban, had already advertised an election at the party congress.
He said it was “a matter of common sense” that the AfD used the short time until the federal election on September 26 “to make our top candidates known”.
The Saxon member of the Bundestag and co-party chairman Tino Chrupalla is being discussed as a possible top candidate.
In the 2017 federal election, Alexander Gauland and Alice Weidel were the top team.
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