Overview
- The founding meeting was held behind closed doors at the AfD’s state office in Dötlingen/Brettorf to establish a Lower Saxony association.
- Delegates elected 28-year-old Bundestag member Micha Fehre as chair, and the group outlined priorities including support for young families, lower business costs, a return to nuclear power, and what it calls remigration.
- Stern reported that in far-right usage remigration typically refers to the departure of large numbers of people of foreign origin, including by force, and Fehre said those without a right to stay should be deported.
- Police reported a peak of roughly 300 demonstrators, with sit-blockades restricting access; local networks such as Brettorf ist bunt and Omas/Opas gegen Rechts organized protests.
- The Lower Saxony Verfassungsschutz is assessing possible continuities with the dissolved Junge Alternative, a claim AfD state deputy Stephan Bothe rejects as he asserts there are no personnel overlaps.