Frankfurt (Germany), 4 July (LaPresse) – AfD co-chair Alice Weidel opened the party’s federal congress in Erfurt with a defiant message directed at the demonstrators protesting outside the exhibition centre: “You won’t be able to stop us; we will become ever stronger and bigger.” In her speech, she also accused the other parties of fuelling “hatred and incitement” against the AfD. On a political front, Weidel announced a review of the so-called ‘incompatibility list’ – the internal document that bars members of certain organisations deemed extremist, including the Identitarian movement and the neo-Nazi NPD party, from joining the party. The change had been requested by some delegates, who were in favour of removing several organisations from the list. The AfD leader acknowledged that the issue had been put off for too long by the leadership and promised that the Federal Executive Committee would review the list within a year. Following this commitment, the motion’s sponsors withdrew the proposal, thereby avoiding a public debate during the congress on the criteria by which the party defines organisations considered extremist.
Germany, Weidel (AfD): “They won’t stop us; we’ll become stronger and bigger”
Frankfurt (Germany), 4 July (LaPresse) – AfD co-chair Alice Weidel opened the party’s federal congress in Erfurt with a defiant message directed at the demonstrators protesting outside the exhibition centre: “You won’t be able to stop us; we will become ever stronger and bigger.” In her speech, she also accused the other parties of fuelling “hatred and incitement” against the AfD. On a political front, Weidel announced a review of the so-called ‘incompatibility list’ – the internal document that bars members of certain organisations deemed extremist, including the Identitarian movement and the neo-Nazi NPD party, from joining the party. The change had been requested by some delegates, who were in favour of removing several organisations from the list. The AfD leader acknowledged that the issue had been put off for too long by the leadership and promised that the Federal Executive Committee would review the list within a year. Following this commitment, the motion’s sponsors withdrew the proposal, thereby avoiding a public debate during the congress on the criteria by which the party defines organisations considered extremist.
