Jörg Meuthen spared himself a cinematic exit like his predecessor Frauke Petry four years ago.
Unlike Petry, who fled the party, the AfD chairman preferred to perform scenes of a completely broken marriage with two partners on his right on the open Berlin stage one day after the federal election.
The power struggle that was frozen before the election has flared up again in full force.
And the smear theater of a friendly right wing party, presented by Meuthen's intimate enemies Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla during the election campaign, does not have to be continued.
The AfD's still almost double-digit election result contains two opposing messages for the further course of the party. In view of its triumph as the strongest party in Saxony and Thuringia, does the AfD want to radicalize itself further to the right as the “Lega Ost” with many directly elected members of the Bundestag and thus establish it permanently? A strategy that the Thuringian AfD leader Höcke successfully propagated. Or will it, as Meuthen demanded, concentrate more heavily in bourgeois garb like AfD founder Lucke once again on voters in the West who were disappointed by the CDU? Because there she has suffered severe losses precisely because of her nationalistic orientation, which Weidel and Chrupalla supported and despite the ingratiation to the "lateral thinker" scene. The success in the East has not been able to compensate for this in Germany as a whole.