AfD leader Alice Weidel, who was unanimously chosen as a candidate for chancellor on Saturday, has stated that she wants her party to qualify for the conservative-bourgeois center. Against this background, the right-wing populist party wants to separate from its previous youth organization Junge Alternative. At the federal party congress in Riesa, Saxony, it was decided on Sunday to dissolve the old youth organization and to establish a new youth organization.
The Young Alternative, an independent organization with only loose ties to the party leadership itself, is apparently too radical. Apart from the board, the members do not necessarily have to belong to the AfD. The JA is nationally regarded as a safe right-wing extremist effort and is supervised by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. Many of the political positions are not compatible with the German Constitution. According to one assessment, there are anti-constitutional attempts. Many of the approximately 2,500 JA members have close ties to right-wing extremist groups, including the Identitarians.
The successor organization should now be more closely linked to the party. This is intended to enable the party leadership to take action in the event of misconduct among AfD youth. But there are also observers who suspect another reason: under the umbrella of the AfD, the youth organization would be better protected against a possible ban.
“Children don’t just come from somewhere”
With resolutions on family policy, abortion and history, the AfD adopted its election manifesto on Sunday at the party conference in Riesa in the German state of Saxony. The delegates decided to include in the program the sentence: “The family, consisting of father, mother and children, is the core of society.” The draft program initially only stated: “The family is the core of our society.”
Thuringian AfD politician Wiebke Muhsal said: “Children do not come from somewhere, but family is where a man and a woman have children together.” Regarding chancellor candidate Weidel, who lives with a wife and is raising two children, he said Hamburg deputy Krzysztof Walczak, the formulation of a mission statement does not imply rejection of other life and family models. “Our candidate for chancellor is a mother herself. She knows what family life is like, and this model does not conflict with tolerance in a free society,” Walczak continued.
The AfD wants to withdraw from the euro and the climate treaty
Important decisions for the election program had already been taken on Saturday. In it, as in its program for last year’s European elections, the party calls for a strict migration policy, a reintroduction of military conscription and an exit from the euro and the Paris climate agreement under the controversial keyword ‘remigration’. She also advocates a new European confederation of states, but avoids an explicit call for Germany to leave the EU (Dexit).
Source: Krone
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