Björn Höcke quickly withdraws from the election marketing campaign in Thuringia

Björn Höcke withdraws from the election marketing campaign in Thuringia “for well being causes”. This was introduced by his spokesperson.

The AfD’s foremost candidate, Björn Höcke, is quickly withdrawing from the election marketing campaign for the Thuringian state parliament. There are “well being causes” for this, a spokesman mentioned. He ought to have participated within the final spherical of negotiations between all seven prime candidates this Wednesday at 5 pm, broadcast by “Antenne Thüringen” and “ntv”.

Based on “ntv”, Höcke tried to cancel the looks on Monday. He gave “personal causes” for this. The date and its affirmation had already been fastened for 3 months.

On Tuesday, Höcke confirmed his participation once more and apologized to the organizers for any “inconvenience”. The ultimate cancellation lastly got here on Wednesday morning. “Mr Höcke can’t take part for well being causes,” defined a spokesperson. “He has to take himself out.”

In his place, Höcke’s fellow state spokesman for the AfD Thuringia, Stefan Möller, will participate within the dialogue.

As “ntv” speculates, the cancellation might even have one thing to do with Höcke’s earlier TV appearances. For instance, a panel dialogue on MDR went badly; Maybe Höcke doesn’t wish to take extra dangers, because the AfD has been steady at 30 p.c in surveys for weeks, “ntv” suspects.