Thursday December 30th 2021
Because of “crossing borders”
Moderate AfD MP leaves the party
The AfD is deeply divided. The right wing seems to be taking over the helm more and more. With Uwe Witt, another moderate AfD politician turns his back on the party. In a letter he speaks of “crossing borders” by party colleagues.
As a reaction to “border crossings” by AfD members, AfD member of the Bundestag Uwe Witt has declared his resignation from the party and the parliamentary group. The MP from Schleswig-Holstein, who was seen as a representative of the moderate trend in the party, wants to continue to exercise his mandate.
In a letter to the AfD federal office and the state office of the party in Kiel, Witt continued that he had always publicly articulated “clear positions with regard to internal party processes”. In addition, he pointed out that he would draw consequences if “these named transgressions within the party should reach the parliamentary group or the federal executive committee does not show a clear edge when party members transgress boundaries”.
Witt said on request that he would comment publicly in mid-January on leaving the party and parliamentary group. The MP is a member of the Labor and Social Affairs Committee. He was a member of the Bundestag in the previous electoral term, at that time as a member of the AfD regional association of North Rhine-Westphalia.