BERLIN (Dow Jones)–The AfD parliamentary group has confirmed the participation of party and parliamentary group leader Alice Weidel’s personal advisor at a meeting of a right-wing network of politicians and entrepreneurs in Potsdam at the end of November 2023. At the meeting, Roland Hartwig presented a social media project that he was helping to set up, a spokesman for the Bundestag faction told the Tagesspiegel (Thursday edition). An article published on Wednesday by the research portal “Correctiv” reported on the meeting of around two dozen people, including members of the AfD and entrepreneurs.
The AfD parliamentary group spokesman said that Hartwig did not develop any ideas there that were subsequently discussed in the federal executive board: “He neither developed political strategies there, nor did he have ideas from Mr. Sellner on migration policy, of whose publication he had no knowledge in advance, ‘carried into the party’.” The “remigration” strategy presented at the meeting will not be adopted by the AfD, said the parliamentary group spokesman: “The AfD will not change its stance on immigration policy, which can be found in the party program, because of an individual opinion of a speaker at a meeting that is not an AfD The appointment was, change.”
Weidel’s personal press spokesman told the Tagesspiegel that she was not aware of the content or the group of participants in the meeting.
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January 10, 2024 10:00 p.m. ET (03:00 GMT)