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Braunschweig (dpa / lni) - The AfD had to cancel its extraordinary state party conference in Braunschweig due to overcrowding and had to end it prematurely.
More members appeared at the party congress on Saturday than would have been allowed into the hall under Corona conditions.
Since no voting members who waited in front of the door could be excluded, the chairman of the meeting decided to break off the party congress.
A continuation on Saturday was impossible.
649 party members were in the hall, 14 were waiting outside.
Since the local public order office insisted on the enforcement of the Corona requirements, the AfD had initially sent all journalists outside, but there were still too many people in the room.
The party congress was accompanied by counter-demonstrations.
Previously, an exchange of blows between the two blocks of the party had emerged.
For the party congress convened by district boards, there were requests to vote against AfD country chief Jens Kestner and three other board members.
Moderate forces in the party defended themselves against the attempt of the right-wing camp around Kestner to repeat the candidate list for the federal election because of alleged formal errors.
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Application book for the AfD state party conference