AfD chief Alice Weidel criticized the deliberate departure of participants of her birthday celebration to Russia and introduced the results throughout the birthday celebration. “I can’t understand what you actually have to do,” Weidel stated all through a bunch briefing within the Bundestag. “I didn’t go there and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone because I don’t know what the end result would be.”
Closing week, the shuttle plans of participants of the AfD parliamentary crew changed into identified. In keeping with knowledge from ZEIT, Steffen Kotre and Rainer Rothfuß, amongst others, are scheduled to take part within the convention of the world affiliation Brics plus in Sochi, Russia. The dpa company discovered from the Saxon AfD faction that state chief Jorg City could also be collaborating within the assembly. In birthday celebration circles, it used to be introduced that Ecu MP Hans Neuhoff could also be touring to Sochi. A gathering with the deputy head of the Russian Safety Council Dmitry Medvedev used to be additionally deliberate, nevertheless it used to be cancelled.
Crew chief Weidel has now introduced that Rothfus “on his own initiative (…) after various discussions with his colleagues” determined now not to take part within the travel. Kotre, then again, desires to persist with plans. Weidel threatened disciplinary measures on this regard. “The framework conditions are set very clearly. Whoever does not comply with them will have to bear the consequences and this will lead to expulsion from the party,” she stated.
“We are looking forward to the results”
Weidel left it open who Kotre sought after to fulfill in Sochi. “We look forward to the results,” she stated merely. The shuttle authorization used to be authorized by way of the competent exterior operating crew within the parliamentary crew. “As a board member, it’s very difficult to go back,” she stated.
In keeping with Weidel, there used to be nice dissatisfaction throughout the crew on account of the deliberate travel. “Dissatisfaction is high because the trips don’t make sense at all. She understands that ‘the driver of such trips is to keep all channels of conversation open.’ There will be peace in Europe only with and not against Russia, said the AfD politician. But whether the Sochi talks are the right channel “I go away that open.”
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The chief of the birthday celebration and parliamentary crew additionally indicated that the management of the parliamentary crew should be desirous about approving such journeys someday. “How we will regulate our travels in the future will certainly be a topic at the next meeting of the Executive Committee of the parliamentary group and for the meeting of the group that will be held in February. Since we should not continue like this, we cannot afford it,” Weidel stated.