Party - Halemba resigns from office and suspends membership rights
The Bavarian AfD member of the state parliament Daniel Halemba, who is facing expulsion proceedings for violating party regulations, has resigned from all party offices with immediate effect. He is also suspending his membership rights in the party, Halemba announced in a written statement on Thursday evening. However, he will retain his seat in the state parliament, Halemba clarified at the request of Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
"In order to prevent damage to the AfD, I am resigning from all party offices with immediate effect and will also refrain from exercising my membership rights within the AfD until further notice," the statement read. "I will face up to all allegations as part of a party disciplinary procedure and cooperate in the investigation. I am confident that all open questions will soon be clarified." The party offices he is resigning are the AfD district chairmanship in Würzburg and an office on the Lower Franconian district executive committee.
The Bavarian AfD state executive had previously decided to consider expulsion proceedings against Halemba. The state executive board had unanimously decided that legal advisor Ferdinand Mang should commission a lawyer to "examine and, if necessary, prepare" the party expulsion proceedings against Halemba commissioned by the federal executive board, state chairman Stephan Protschka told the German Press Agency in Munich this evening.
The state executive committee is thus not immediately complying with a corresponding demand by the AfD federal executive committee to initiate proceedings, but is having this examined. The federal executive board's demand was based on Halemba's violations of the AfD's rules and regulations, which had led to the admission of members in breach of the party's statutes in the run-up to two constituency meetings for the state elections in Bavaria.
The public prosecutor's office in Würzburg is also investigating the 22-year-old for incitement of the people and the use of symbols of anti-constitutional organizations. Halemba rejects the accusations.
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- Despite being from Bavaria, Daniel Halemba, who is a member of the state parliament, has been facing 'party exclusion proceedings' in the AfD due to violating party regulations.
- The German Press Agency reported that Halemba resigned from all his party offices, including the AfD district chairmanship in Würzburg and his position on the Lower Franconian district executive committee, in an attempt to prevent damage to the AfD.
- The 'AfD' state executive had considered initiating 'expulsion proceedings' against Halemba, following a unanimous decision by the state executive board to commission a lawyer to examine and prepare these proceedings.
- Halemba, who is suspected of violating AfD's rules and regulations, which resulted in the admission of members in breach of the party's statutes in the run-up to two constituency meetings for the state elections in Bavaria, is also under investigation by the public prosecutor's office in Würzburg for incitement of the people and the use of symbols of anti-constitutional organizations.
- In a statement, Halemba confirmed that he is resigning from all party offices with immediate effect and will also refrain from exercising his membership rights within the AfD until further notice, while vowing to face up to all allegations as part of a party disciplinary procedure and cooperate in the investigation.
- The 'national top' AfD member, Daniel Halemba, is currently in the spotlight due to these developments, which have drawn widespread attention in Germany and beyond.
Source: www.stern.de
