Höcke to become AfD top candidate in Thuringia election campaign
Thuringia's AfD chairman Björn Höcke is to be elected as the top candidate for the 2024 state election at a state election meeting on Friday (scheduled start: 6 p.m.). The 51-year-old had already announced a year ago that he wanted to lead his state association into the election campaign again. The Thuringian AfD is classified by the State Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a confirmed right-wing extremist party and is under observation. Before the state election meeting in Pfiffelbach (Weimarer Land district), a party conference will be held to elect the court of arbitration, among other things.
The state election in Bavaria is scheduled for September 1, 2024. In the last election in 2019, Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow's Left Party was the strongest party, with the AfD in second place. In recent polls, the AfD was now mostly in the lead - with figures of 32 to 34 percent.
Höcke had repeatedly underlined his party's ambition to become part of a government. However, the Thuringian AfD has no prospects of forming a coalition - no other party represented in the state parliament would forge a government with it. However, the CDU and FDP accept AfD votes in order to pass their own laws.
In the upcoming 2024 Thuringia state election, Björn Höcke, the AfD's chairman, will serve as the top candidate, aiming to lead the party in the campaign, as decided at a state election meeting. Despite the Thuringian AfD being classified as a right-wing extremist party and under observation, the AfD often leads in polls before the election.
Source: www.dpa.com
