The AfD faction in the Bavarian state parliament continues to shrink.
The co-chairman of the parliamentary group, Christian Klingen, and the member of parliament Markus Bayerbach have announced their withdrawal from the parliamentary group and party.
Both confirmed this on Sunday to the German Press Agency.
First, the Bavarian radio had reported.
Klingen was only elected head of the deeply divided parliamentary group alongside Ulrich Singer in October 2021.
At that time, the two followed Ingo Hahn and Katrin Ebner-Steiner.
Ebner-Steiner was assigned to the dissolved right-wing national wing of the AfD and is considered a confidant of the AfD right-winger Björn Höcke.
At that time, Markus Bayerbach was elected Deputy Parliamentary Managing Director.
Klingen justified his resignation with "certain tendencies" in the party.
There are developments that he no longer wants to support.
Bayerbach initially did not want to say anything about the reasons for his departure on Sunday.
Since entering the state parliament, the AfD had made headlines almost continuously with internal disputes.
Before Klingen and Bayerbach, four MPs had already left the parliamentary group, and there were long bitter power struggles and intrigues.
With the two other departures, the AfD parliamentary group has shrunk from 22 MPs to just 16.