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AfD state party conference: Halemba should resign his mandate
Daniel Halemba is considered a right winger in the Bavarian AfD. photo
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Daniel Halemba is accused of having cheated in his favor when drawing up the AfD list for the state elections in Bavaria. Now the party wants him to stop carrying out his mandate.
The Bavarian AfD member of the state parliament Daniel Halemba has been asked by his party’s state party conference to resign his mandate immediately. A corresponding proposal from 161 party members received a majority of a good 57 percent of the votes at the party conference in Greding. Halemba is not bound by the request.
The state executive board has now proposed a two-year ban from holding office within the party for Halemba. This became known during the debate on the motion. Originally, a party expulsion procedure was considered against the Würzburg fraternity member. However, the examination of the facts showed that some of the allegations were not tenable, it was said. Halemba is considered a right-winger in the Bavarian AfD; he is assigned to the wing around the Thuringian state leader Björn Höcke, which has now been officially dissolved but still exists as a network.
The 22-year-old is accused of cheating in his favor when drawing up the list for the state elections last October. The applicants also accuse him of fraud, among other things, because party members are said to have acted with fictitious residences. The Würzburg public prosecutor’s office is also investigating 22-year-old Halemba for, among other things, incitement to hatred.