Overview

• At a late-June meeting the AfD parliamentary group voted to increase its chairs’ monthly functional allowance from €6,000 to €12,000
• Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla now each receive about €24,000 per month when combining the new allowance with their standard Bundestag salary
• Anonymous AfD MPs have criticized the raise as “unverschämt” and expressed shock over the last-minute, orally disclosed decision
• State prosecutors from the Staatsanwaltschaft Magdeburg and the Landeskriminalamt searched CDU, SPD and AfD offices in the Saxony-Anhalt Landtag on suspicion of unlawful allowances paid in 2021–2022
• The office searches stem from a Bund der Steuerzahler complaint alleging embezzlement and breaches of a 2020 parliamentary reform limiting functional payments