Overview
- Member-run state conferences remain after a statute to introduce delegate-based meetings and a secretary-general fell well short of the two-thirds threshold.
- State leader René Springer said he would continue to argue for changes and declared a goal of winning an absolute majority to govern alone at the next election.
- An estimated 350 people demonstrated in Brandenburg an der Havel against the AfD meeting, according to a dpa reporter, after a call by the alliance Zusammen in Brandenburg.
- Brandenburg’s CDU re-elected Jan Redmann as state chair with 71.9% support, down from 85.7% two years earlier following the party’s weak 2024 state result.
- In Hesse, AfD delegates re-elected Andreas Lichert with 88.6% and Robert Lambrou with 74.1% as co-chairs at a large state party convention.