At a state party conference this weekend, the Hessian AfD is positioning itself for the state election campaign in October. The focus is on the topics of energy, education and migration.
Melsungen (dpa/lhe) – The Hessian AfD is moving into the state election campaign with the topics of energy, education and migration. At a state party conference on Saturday, the party discussed its program for the October 8 election. “We all know that election day is payday,” said deputy parliamentary group leader Andreas Lichert at the start of the event in Melsungen, North Hesse (Schwalm-Eder district). Especially in times of crisis, citizens settled their accounts in hard political currency. And the hot credibility.
“More and more citizens feel and understand that the old parties no longer have the answers to the really serious questions of our time.” The AfD shows that it can provide these answers, explained Lichert, who was considered a supporter of the now formally dissolved “wing” of the AfD, which the constitutional protection classified as a suspected right-wing extremist.
The party’s election program calls for, among other things, securing the energy supply, stopping the expansion of wind and solar systems and restricting refugee policies. The party also wants to abolish the real estate transfer tax, introduce a baby welcome bonus and introduce the subject “local history” into the Hessian school curriculum.
With 83 percent of the votes of the delegates present, the district association and city faction chairman of the AfD Fulda, Pierre Lamely, was elected to the state executive board. Previously, he had massively criticized federal and state migration policies. The AfD is the only party “that wants to make Hessen a fabulous country for everyone who has lived here for a long time and who keep the shop running.”
214 voting delegates were invited to the party conference, which is due to end on Sunday. According to a spokesman, the state association currently has around 2,200 members. The AfD entered the Hessian state parliament for the first time after the last state election in 2018. With a result of 13.1 percent, she won 19 mandates. In the meantime, however, the group only has 14 people. Four deputies have left the party in a dispute over the political course. An elected member of parliament was suspected of having spread right-wing extremist ideas and was not accepted into the Hessian AfD parliamentary group.
