Lower Saxony state party conference
AfD boss Chrupalla wants to halve the CDU
AfD boss Tino Chrupalla at the state party conference of the AfD Lower Saxony in Celle. photo
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“We have grown up,” says AfD boss Chrupalla about the development of the party. This does not only include the willingness to assume government responsibility.
He added: “We have to halve the CDU and the Greens have to disappear as the most dangerous party.” Chrupalla was celebrated for this by the around 470 AfD members in the hall. CDU federal leader Merz said in 2018 as an applicant for party chairmanship that he dared to halve the AfD.
Chrupalla also underlined that the AfD was ready to gradually assume government responsibility. Other parties are afraid that citizens will be better off if the AfD governs, he said. The AfD can not only show opposition, but also performance. “We will show that in the municipalities, we have to start there, then in the state parliaments and then in the federal government,” said Chrupalla. The AfD is in the most recent polls nationwide between 19 and 21 percent.
In the Thuringian district of Sonneberg, the AfD has a district administrator for the first time, and in Raguhn-Jeßnitz in Saxony-Anhalt a mayor. Chrupalla also sees a chance for the AfD to emerge victorious in the state elections in the East next year. “We’ve grown up,” he said of the party’s development.