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In March, the right-wing populist party AFD entered the Baden-Württemberg state parliament with 23 seats (15.1% of the votes).
Now, 13 out of the 23 members of parliament have left the AFD faction. Reason was a fight over statements by one MP, Wolfgang Gedeon:
Wolfang Gedeon (AFD) was accused of belitteling the Holocaust on the Jews under Nazi rule. In an interview, he referred to the Holocaust as "certain misdeeds" and called Holocaust deniers "dissidents", suggesting they are politically persecuted.
Jorg Meuthen, AFD faction chairman in Baden-Württemberg, then attempted to throw Gedeon out of the faction, but the necessary two-thirds majority was not reached, as 9 other AFD faction members took sides for Gedeon.
In the end, Jörg Meuthen and 12 other AFD members left the faction. Meuthen said he and his group enjoy support by the federal leadership of the party around Frauke Petry, and two examination committees by the AFD indeed found Gedeon's remarks to be "anti-Semitism".
The legal question whether Meuthen and his 12 supporters, or Gedeon and his 9 friends officially remain the AFD faction in the Baden-Württemberg parliament remains open for the time being.
Antisemitismus: Stuttgarter AfD-Fraktion für Ausschluss von Gedeon | ZEIT ONLINE
Stuttgart: AfD-Fraktion in Baden-Württemberg zerlegt sich | ZEIT ONLINE
Now, 13 out of the 23 members of parliament have left the AFD faction. Reason was a fight over statements by one MP, Wolfgang Gedeon:
Wolfang Gedeon (AFD) was accused of belitteling the Holocaust on the Jews under Nazi rule. In an interview, he referred to the Holocaust as "certain misdeeds" and called Holocaust deniers "dissidents", suggesting they are politically persecuted.
Jorg Meuthen, AFD faction chairman in Baden-Württemberg, then attempted to throw Gedeon out of the faction, but the necessary two-thirds majority was not reached, as 9 other AFD faction members took sides for Gedeon.
In the end, Jörg Meuthen and 12 other AFD members left the faction. Meuthen said he and his group enjoy support by the federal leadership of the party around Frauke Petry, and two examination committees by the AFD indeed found Gedeon's remarks to be "anti-Semitism".
The legal question whether Meuthen and his 12 supporters, or Gedeon and his 9 friends officially remain the AFD faction in the Baden-Württemberg parliament remains open for the time being.
Antisemitismus: Stuttgarter AfD-Fraktion für Ausschluss von Gedeon | ZEIT ONLINE
Stuttgart: AfD-Fraktion in Baden-Württemberg zerlegt sich | ZEIT ONLINE