After the deportation conference in Potsdam, the AfD draws conclusions. Participant Roland Hartwig is no longer an employee of co-party leader Alice Weidel. However, the demand for “remigration” remains the AfD’s concern.
AfD co-leader Alice Weidel and her colleague Roland Hartwig are now going their separate ways. ZDF reported this on Monday evening, citing party circles. The DPA news agency had confirmation of the separation. The employment contract will be “terminated by mutual agreement,” it said.
AfD renews call for “remigration”
The step is apparently a consequence of the 69-year-old speaker’s participation in a meeting between several AfD representatives and other right-wing extremists in Potsdam at the end of November. According to research by “Correctiv”, the possibilities for deportation (“remigration”) of potentially millions of people from Germany were discussed. Last week’s conference sparked nationwide outrage and reignited the discussion about banning the AfD. As a result, tens of thousands of people across Germany discussed against the party.
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The AfD and its leadership had emphasized several times that the meeting in Potsdam was not a party event and downplayed its significance. Nevertheless, the party and Alice Weidel once again spread the call for “remigration” of people living in Germany.
The term was named “bad word of the year” on Monday. The word is a “right-wing fighting term” and a “euphemistic cover vocabulary,” explained linguist and jury spokeswoman Constanze Spieß. It is used by right-wing parties and right-wing extremist groups “to call for forced expulsion and even mass deportations of people with a migration history.”
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Source: Stern
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