The German far-right party AfD has announced that it will leave the European party alliance ID, as announced by deputy party leader Peter Boehringer at a conference in Essen. This decision was made following the authority of the federal executive board, which was granted by a two-thirds majority vote by the delegates.
The ID, short for Identity and Democracy, is a coalition of right-wing populist and nationalist parties. The AfD had only joined the ID party alliance last year but had previously been part of the ID faction in the European Parliament. However, controversial statements made by AfD top candidate Maximilian Krah about the National Socialist SS resulted in the exclusion of the AfD group from the parliamentary group shortly before the European elections.
Despite attempts to reconcile with the ID faction after Krah’s exclusion from their group, the AfD did not see eye to eye with them. Ultimately, this led to their decision to leave
