AfD youth founds state association in Saxony

The new youth organization of the AfD, Generation Deutschland, has founded a Saxon state association. AfD city councillor Lennard Scharpe from Bautzen has been elected chairman, according to party spokesperson Andreas Harlaß. The founding meeting took place in Chemnitz. The spokesperson was unable to say how many members the Saxon branch of Generation Germany (GD) has.

The GD is the successor to the Junge Alternative (JA), which disbanded after the AfD decided to found a new youth organization with closer ties to the party. The new nationwide youth structure was launched last November at a congress in Giessen, Hesse. There had been fierce protests and clashes between demonstrators and police.

The new AfD youth organization has also already formed in other federal states, including Thuringia, Bavaria and Schleswig-Holstein. A state association is to be founded in Lower Saxony at the end of February.