Magdeburg (dpa/sa) - The Alternative for Germany wants to elect a new state executive at a state party conference on Sunday in Magdeburg. Martin Reichardt, member of the Bundestag, is again running for the presidency. The 53-year-old has been head of the AfD since 2018 and was last re-elected two years ago with 90 percent approval. Before his time in the AfD, Reichardt was already a member of other parties - the SPD, the FDP and the Republicans. Reichardt has been a member of the Bundestag since 2017. In June, he was also elected to the party executive at the federal party conference in Riesa.
In the state elections in June 2021, the AfD became the second strongest force in Saxony-Anhalt after the CDU. The AfD received 20.8 percent of the votes, and with 23 out of 97 MPs, it is the largest opposition faction in parliament. In the federal elections in September, the AfD got 19.6 percent of the votes in Saxony-Anhalt.
