display
The AfD parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel wants to lead her party as a top candidate in the federal election campaign.
You want to apply together with the party chairman Tino Chrupalla as a top team, said Weidel on Wednesday night on the ZDF talk show "Markus Lanz".
On Tuesday it became known that the retired Lieutenant General Joachim Wundrak, 65, and the Bundestag member Joana Cotar, 48, would like 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 AfD base and our voters can identify," said Cotar.
Chrupalla had previously turned down her offer to form a team, she added.
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.
display
In Baden-Württemberg, where Weidel is the state chairwoman, the candidates for the federal election on September 26th are still pending. When asked what he wanted to focus on during the election campaign, Chrupalla, who is number one on the Saxon state list, said: “Corona has brought the major problems in our country 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.
Wundrak and Cotar are more likely to be given outsider opportunities, as they are not very well known in the public or in the party. Unlike Weidel and Chrupalla, they are assigned to the party-internal camp of co-party chairman Jörg Meuthen, which is considered to be moderate. 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 federal election.
Chrupalla enjoys the support of the right wing movement around the Thuringian state chief Björn Höcke, which is classified as a right-wing extremist movement by the protection of the constitution. According to his own statement, he only took part as a guest at a meeting of the now formally dissolved “wing”. Weidel had previously campaigned for Höcke to be excluded from the AfD, but later changed her course. Weidel and Alexander Gauland formed the top AfD team for the federal election in 2017. The party moved into the Bundestag for the first time with 12.6 percent of the vote.