The controversial former national chief of Saxony-Anhalt, Poggenburg, leaves the AfD. The party confirmed. They had recently imposed a two-year Amtssperre against Poggenburg.
The Saxony-Anhalt Landtag Deputy, André Poggenburg leaves the AfD. National Board member Kay Gottschalk confirmed to the German press Agency that Poggenburg had declared his exit. Poggenburg itself is not expressed on request.
xenophobic StatementsHe had been until March of 2018, the country party leader of the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt. At the time, he had disparaged the Turkish community in Germany as "caraway seed dealer" and "camel driver". People with dual citizenship, he was called "father of the country-less riff-raff". The internal pressure he had entered the Landtag fraction and from the country presidency. Later, he had differences of opinion with other leading members of the right national wing of the AfD. Its best-known representatives of the Thuringian state chief Björn Höcke.
finally, the Federal Board of AfD had locked the name validly published for two years for all Offices. He was irritated a lot of people at a party of friends previously with pithy sayings on Twitter. He had written on new year's eve on Twitter: "The citizens of our national community a healthy, peaceful and Patriotic 2019!"