AfD in the Bundestag: Weidel and Chrupalla confirmed as parliamentary group leaders
The AfD meets for its first parliamentary group meeting. The MPs re-elect Weidel and Chrupalla to lead the parliamentary group, which has doubled in size.
The AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag will continue to be led by Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla . The newly elected MPs confirmed the leadership duo in office with a large majority at the AfD parliamentary group's constitutive meeting in Berlin. Weidel and Chrupalla received 135 of the 144 votes cast. There were 7 no votes and 2 abstentions.
The new AfD parliamentary group had previously been constituted. The AfD had doubled its result in the federal election from 10.4 to 20.8 percent and now has 152 representatives, up from 77 in the current legislative period.
Chrupalla won the direct mandate in Görlitz, Brandenburg. The 49-year-old received 48.9 percent of the first votes in constituency 156. AfD top candidate Alice Weidel (Bodensee constituency) will enter the Bundestag via her party's state list, where she is in first place. Weidel missed out on the direct mandate.
In Berlin, the AfD received 15.2 percent. In Berlin's neighboring state of Brandenburg, the AfD received 32.5 percent , gaining more than 14 percentage points. This makes it almost as strong as the CDU and SPD combined. In Sunday's federal election, the AfD won almost all constituencies in eastern Germany with the exception of Berlin. SPD top candidate Olaf Scholz only won in the Potsdam/Potsdam-Mittelmark constituency, as did two Left Party politicians, Sören Pellmann in Leipzig-Süd and Bodo Ramelow in Erfurt/Weimar. In Berlin, the partially right-wing extremist AfD also won in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf constituency .
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