euphoria in Kassel: The new party of ex-AFD Chief Bernd Lucke wants to score with genetic engineering and Euro-skepticism. But where voters are to come, is unclear.
AFD founder Bernd Lucke is chairman of the new party Alfa. | © Uwe Zucchi / dpa
The internal founding meeting lasted less than two hours because warns Bernd Kölmel participants already insistently, the finger hold still. The organizers of the conference in a hotel near the train station Kassel has just seen details from the welcoming speech Bernd Luckes in an internal Community AfD on Facebook, posted by a circle chairman of the party, which is not in the room. Do not even exist, the new alliance has a mole in its ranks. Such Lucke leak already existed once, just before the AFD Party in Essen at the Lucke crashed. Many of Luckes supporters have now met again in Kassel
In the foyer of the hotel watching a policeman with bulletproof vest -. Because of possible attacks on the founders, it is at the front desk. The conference room of the basement Kölmel explains the well 70 followers founded by Lucke political association Wake 2015 next goals: to the state elections in Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saxony-Anhalt in March 2016 applies to retract with the new party at least succès d’estime , And the hated AfD, it dreamed of many here is, on election night in the bar graph in the meaningless “other parties” to disappear.
At least formally, the conditions are created for it now. Two years after the launch of the FSC and two weeks after Luckes turbulent deselection in Essen the Party Alfa has in Kassel founded, the self-styled alliance for progress and renewal. Under the working title “restart” feilten renegade AFD members in recent weeks on a concept and searched for supporters. In Kassel the founding members now chose Lucke Chairman and adopted a statute and a foundation program. During the night the documents by fax to reach the Federal Returning Officer. Alfa wants to score as Progressive Party, says Lucke, to fight against hostility to technology, soften the reservations about genetic engineering. . “There is no such party in Germany”, the new chairman
In particular, says Alfa wants but avoid the mistakes of the AFD: The rapid growth that drives phrases, proximity to Pegida and the swing back to populism after the European election victory in 2014, which attracted many nationalists and with the East German state associations imports two-digit election results. . The right-wing nationalist subversion, the gap had initially favored by his own remarks and before he unsuccessfully warned later
The Alfa Statute contains for concrete barriers: membership applications from interested parties with racist, nationalist or anti-Islamic positions should have no chance , a recording ban apply to particularly exposed persons. But “Objectively-constructive criticism” on these issues was possible, according to
In the event of his deselection as AFD Chief Lucke had made provision for the party-affiliated club Wakeup founded in the spring of 2015 from the now Alfa apparent. The majority of the loud Lucke meanwhile almost 5,000 Wakeup supporters has now left the AFD and is willing to join with Alfa according to an internal survey. Among the wake-up call co-founder Ulrike Trebesius and Bernd Kölmel MEP, previously country heads in Schleswig-Holstein and Baden-Württemberg. Or MEP Hans-Olaf Henkel, which is to establish an Alfa-Economic Council. Or the economist Joachim Starbatty of Tübingen, with the changed the entire scientific advisory board of the AFD to Lucke.
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The alarm is now to Alfa, a kind AfD 2.0:. Emergence is “the old cosmopolitan, Euro-skeptic party of 2013,” says Lucke. So without the “lies Press” -Populismus of AFD Deputy Alexander Gauland without gender fears of representatives elected in food co-chairman Beatrix von Storch, without the Pegida-Zündeleien of Petry and their national-conservative strategy partner in western Germany, NRW Chef Marcus Pretzell.
But can be obtained only with Euro-skepticism and genetic engineering elections? The new party would need igniting issues, it would require new, charismatic heads, the quick success in the western German states of Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, where elected in March 2016. To the east it would apply to move into the state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. At express speed Alfa would attract many members and develop a profile that is distinctive landmarks in the economic, family and educational policy.
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