Eu Parliament
AfD leadership wants to leave ID party after being expelled from parliamentary group
Looking for new alliance partners in Brussels: Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, party leaders of the AfD
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There is no longer any room for the AfD in the right-wing ID group in the newly elected EU Parliament. The party leadership is now looking for other partners in Brussels and also wants to separate from the ID as a party.
ID faction had thrown out AfD before European elections
According to the information, the AfD executive committee decided to recommend that the party conference in Essen this weekend should withdraw from the alliance. A motion from various AfD members has already been submitted for the delegates’ meeting, which aims in this direction. Membership in the ID party gives them access to the AfD’s program. This is rejected, the statement said.
The AfD joined the ID party last year. It was already part of the ID group in the European Parliament before that. However, after controversial comments by AfD top candidate Maximilian Krah about the National Socialist SS, the group excluded the AfD group shortly before the European elections. Even the AfD’s decision after the election to exclude Krah from its group did not bring about a rapprochement with the ID group. However, the AfD is still a member of the ID party.
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AfD leader Alice Weidel said that options for other coalitions in the newly elected European Parliament were being explored. Corresponding talks are reportedly underway in Brussels. Contrary to reports to the contrary, no new group will be founded this week, party sources said on Monday.
According to the House of Representatives’ rules of procedure, at least 23 parliamentarians from at least a quarter of the EU member states are required to form a parliamentary group in the European Parliament. The AfD received 15.9 percent of the votes in the European elections and thus has 15 MPs.