The polarization that the European Union (EU) causes in the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party will make it impossible to even discuss the program with which it will attend the european elections of 2024. The date of the next weekend that the party Executive had set at the congress that is being held in the capital of Saxony-Anhalt is finally diluted to January. “Things could get difficult. We hope we can manage with night sessions but if there is no agreement we will not have the debate program until January next year,” the AfD co-president has advanced, Tino Chrupalla. His partner in office, Alice Weidelalready assumes that “it is very likely that we will not get the program and we will have to go to January.”
This would mean that the only result of this congress, focused exclusively on Europe, would be the preparation of the list to the European Parliamentan institution in which he does not believe and for which he has come to ask, and therein lies the irony, its dissolution.
The list was closed this Saturday. The maximum number was 30 people and, to enter the competition, the congressmen established, among other requirements, a minimum of five years of professional activity outside of politics, a minimum time of affiliation to the party to avoid potential careerists and good English skills. After a seven-minute presentation speech, the candidates had to submit to two questions. One of the AfD’s mantras is transparency.
The election of the head of the list for the elections that will allow the AfD to fight, from within, against community institutions that they consider “anti-democratic” y “pernicious”It was less painful. Four candidates stood but the balance was clearly tipped towards the MEP Maximilian Arm. And there have been no surprises. In addition to meeting all the requirements, Krah, who passes in the AfD for being a charismatic and intelligent politician, has good contacts in the most radical and increasingly influential wing of the party. Krah is one of them. He has published a book titled politics from the right through the ultra-right publishing house Antaios, from Götz Kubitschek, monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The first edition is already sold out. Krah appears in several places in reports from the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which examine how dangerous the AfD is for democracy.
As a lawyer, he represented protesters from the Pegida anti-immigration movement and the group of men who tied an Iraqi refugee to a tree, but that, he rightly asserts, is guaranteeing the right to defense guaranteed to all by the Constitution.
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