AfD leader Frauke Petry stuns Germany by quitting hours after being elected

http://www.euronews.com/2017/09/25/afd-leader-frauke-petry-stuns-germany-by-quitting-hours-after-being-elected ^ | September 25, 2017 | Emma Beswick

[Berlin_Freeper]

Just one day after her party’s success in the German federal elections yesterday (September 14), Frauke Petry, co-chair of far-right party Alternative for Germany, said she would not be part of the parliamentary group.

Petry’s surprise announcement after the far-right AfD won around 13 percent of the vote in Germany’s elections, an historic result meaning that the party would not only enter parliament for the first time but also as the third strongest party.

The news appeared to come as a shock to her colleagues, with fellow co-chair Jörg Meuthen telling German press agency dpa, that he “had had no knowledge” of the decision beforehand and called it “a bombshell”.

[Leaning Right]

> Oh. Sensitive are you? <

LOL, not at all. Just curious!

[SunkenCiv]

3 days ago Der Spiegel revealed she had a Syrian refugee as a housekeeper. Doubtless more ‘revelations’ were forthcoming. Remember, she is a foreign-born lesbian.

Thanks montag813.

BTW, the buzzword and paranoia level in the topic comments here are breathtaking.

[reed13k]

If you’ll recall - something very similar happened with the leader of the Brexit vote right after his side won in Great Britain.

I get the feeling these folks and their families are being threatened.

Now look here see.... you can go off and make the circuits ... and some pretty good dough I might add... giving speeches ... tamp it down just a bit though not too loud ... or you can meet your great gandpappy and tell’em what a good little boy/girl you been. No? How about that little niece of yours? Hmmm?

[Redmen4ever]

The leader of a party quits?

[Moltke]

The long knives are out.

Huh? Wrong metaphor. She wasn't "knifed" by the party. Quite the opposite. Narcissistic b!tch that just defrauded her voters. On the upside, better now than later.

[DoodleDawg]

Remember, she is a foreign-born lesbian.

She was born in Dresden and is living with fellow AfD member, Marcus Pretzell.

[AppyPappy]

Or she was working undercover and didn’t expect to win.

[Uncle Miltie]

Blackmail.

[Steve Van Doorn]

That is hearsay. Her facebook page says something else:
"Unfortunately, it (13%) was not enough for a real policy change."

[Berlin_Freeper]

Your quote leaves a lot to be desired.

[Steve Van Doorn]

Her post is in German. go read it. She said she was upset about moderates being called a Nazi and other things.

What I don't understand about your link is how you a freeper can believe anything the media says?

[Berlin_Freeper]

By August, Petry's backing within the party had shrunk so far that when a parliamentary committee in Saxony recommended lifting her immunity from prosecution, the AfD members of the body did not protest. State prosecutors suspect Petry of lying under oath in November 2015, when she and fellow AfD member Carsten Hütter allegedly gave conflicting testimony on the party's candidate list and campaign financing ahead of Saxony's 2014 state election. Petry has since criticized senior members of the AfD leadership for pushing away moderate voters. In the run-up to the national election on Sunday, Petry publically denounced Gauland for saying that Germany should be proud of its soldiers in the World Wars.

[Berlin_Freeper]

So your problem is me. No wonder you are stalking me then.

Problem you have there though, is the way Petry resigned, that AfD members were in open shock, says a lot that you are too shallow to accept.

Difference between you and me is, I couldn’t care less what you think.

[Berlin_Freeper]

The relationship breakdown then culminated in her walking out of the post-election party press conference.

"We should be open about the fact there there is conflict regarding content within the AfD, we should not pretend it doesn't exist," Petry later told reporters. She added that the party had become "anarchical" in the weeks leading up to the election and "cannot offer the voter a credible platform for government."

[Fred Nerks]

“I want to practice real politics in the spirit of good conservative politics and be part of the actual shaping of things,” Petry said.

She did not lead the party in this year’s elections, which was allegedly due to differences in opinion on the party’s direction.

As I see it, Petry, as a founding member, quit the party, after Alice Weidel led it to Germany's third most powerful position in the election. It is Alice Weidel who proclaims to be lesbian, has a partner and two children, living in Switzerland. Alice Weidel states she is not in favour of same-sex marriage.

PETRY left, WEIDEL right.

[Berlin_Freeper]

“I want to practice real politics in the spirit of good conservative politics and be part of the actual shaping of things,” Petry said.

“People must stop migrants from crossing illegally from Austria [into Germany],” she said in an interview with a regional newspaper. “If necessary, [they] should use firearms. I don’t want this, but the use of armed force is there as a last resort.”

[Fred Nerks]

I give up. The impression seems to be that Petry left the party after the election. She didn't. She was replaced by ALICE WEIDEL.

The AfD is due to elect its candidate line-up at this weekend’s party conference in Cologne, where police are preparing for tens of thousands of demonstrators taking to the streets to protest against the party. Candidates mooted as possible replacements to fill Petry’s shoes include Alexander Gauland, a 76-year-old former member of Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union, and Alice Weidel, a former Goldman Sachs economist.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Frauke Petry lost support and stepped down. She was replaced by Alexander Gauland who then brought in lesbian Alice Weidel as co-leader to supposedly soften AfD's Nazi image that Gauland was giving it.

Now, Petry was a little pissy about having to step down while getting stabbed in the back by AfD during a criminal investigation. So to get even she pulled this action, taking her seat of power from AfD to be an Independent while admitting to the world they are a bunch of crazy losers who will never govern.

[Hot Butter - Popcorn]

[Fred Nerks]

...So to get even she pulled this action, taking her seat of power from AfD to be an Independent while admitting to the world they are a bunch of crazy losers who will never govern.

What the stunning success of AfD means for Germany and Europe

[Berlin_Freeper]

“I want to practice real politics in the spirit of good conservative politics and be part of the actual shaping of things,” Petry said.