AfD – Meuthen does not want to run for federal spokesman again – politics

AfD boss Jörg Meuthen does not want to run for national spokesman again at the next party conference in December. The 60-year-old announced this in an internal email reported by several media. According to information from t-online Meuthen, who has been in office since summer 2015, writes of an “incredibly demanding” time as a federal spokesman, which was marked by “some hardships and disappointments”, but also by “a lot of good experiences”.

The conflicts within the AfD had intensified significantly in the past few weeks. Meuthen’s relationship with the top candidates Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, who is also co-party leader, is considered extremely bad. After the AfD had achieved a weaker result in the federal election than four years ago, the differences in the party leadership became clear.

Meuthen, Weidel and Chrupalla were unable to agree on a uniform assessment of the election results in a joint press conference. There was a chill atmosphere between them. While Weidel did not want anyone to criticize the result, Meuthen criticized parts of the election program as too radical and said that the election had to be dealt with ruthlessly.

A showdown between the right-wing camp, which supports Chrupalla and Weidel, and Meuthen was already expected for the party conference in Wiesbaden in December.

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