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Berlin (AP) - The retired Lieutenant General Joachim Wundrak (65) from Lower Saxony and the Bundestag member Joana Cotar (48) want to lead the AfD as a top team in the federal election campaign.
"I am interested in a solution that maps the AfD in its breadth, with which the base of the AfD and our voters can identify," said Cotar on Tuesday.
Since party leader Tino Chrupalla had not accepted her offer to form a team, and so far no other team had entered the race that would meet this claim, she and Wundrak decided to apply together.
After lengthy debates, the AfD decided to let the members vote on the top duo.
Teams of two who want to compete together must report by Wednesday 12 noon.
Wundrak and Cotar are more likely to be seen as outsiders, as they are not very well known in the party either.
The Lower Saxony AfD had chosen Wundrak as its top candidate for the federal election in December.
The so far highest-ranking former soldier in the AfD had only made his party membership public after he left the Bundeswehr.
Cotar is the digital political spokeswoman for the parliamentary group and number two on the Hessian state list for the election on September 26th.
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It is very likely that party leader Tino Chrupalla wants to be the top candidate. Officially, Chrupalla, who is also deputy chairman of the parliamentary group, has not yet said with whom he wants to apply together. It would be conceivable, for example, that he would run together with Alice Weidel, the previous co-chair of the parliamentary group. However, in Baden-Württemberg, where Weidel is state chairman, the candidates for the federal election are still pending.
When asked what he wanted to focus on during the election campaign, Chrupalla said: «Corona is causing the major problems in our country to come to light.
The middle class and the middle class are eroding.
Families in particular get into social hardship because living space in cities is becoming unaffordable. "
The distinction between systemically relevant and not systemically relevant in the corona crisis divides society even more deeply.
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