Overview

• An extraordinary council session on 15 September will reassign committees, advisory boards and supervisory boards.
• Mayor Sven Schulze said the city would not take the case to the higher administrative court to avoid prolonging the stalemate.
• The ruling follows months of internal AfD disputes that had stalled appointments to key bodies.
• Reports differ on the size of the splinter group, with accounts ranging from three councillors to twelve leaving on 1 August to form the AfD-Ratsfraktion Chemnitz.
• The AfD holds 15 of the 60 council seats, and similar faction splits have precedent in Saxony, including Dresden in 2007.