On the morning of the day when Jörg Meuthen was supposed to give up the AfD chairmanship and leave the party at the same time, other leading forces were still considering how the ongoing dispute at the top of the party could be resolved.
Like every Friday, the heads of the state associations and the federal board got together.
The North Rhine-Westphalian state chairman Rüdiger Lucassen asked at short notice to put another item on the agenda.
He was annoyed that the party once again gave a shattered picture because Tino Chrupalla, against the will of his co-chairman, had pushed through the stray CDU man Max Otte as an AfD candidate for the office of Federal President and afterwards Meuthen again publicly distanced himself from his own party had gone.
Andreas Nefger
Editor in Politics.
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Lucassen, who is said to have ambitions for party leadership himself, wanted one of the chairmen to resign.
And now - and not only at the upcoming party conference, as Meuthen had announced anyway.