For the first time since 1945: AfD politician loses her mandate in Hamburg!

For the first time since 1945: AfD politician loses her mandate in Hamburg!

In a historical step, the constitutional committee of the Hamburg Citizenship has given a unanimous recommendation to withdraw the mandate of MP Olga Petersen (AfD). This decision affects both your mandate in the citizens and in the Harburg district assembly. At the upcoming meeting of the citizens, this withdrawal is expected to officially decide what is the first mandate withdrawal since 1945. The pressure on Petersen, which is criticized because of its frequent absence of sessions, has increased after a video has appeared in which she confirms to be in Russia, like suederelbe24.de reported.

Petersen has not participated in the citizens' meeting for months and was also not present at the Harburg district assembly, in which it was only elected in June. According to information from the regional election manager Oliver Rudolf, she no longer fulfills the prerequisites for the selection, since she has neither a place of residence in Hamburg nor her habitual stay there. This situation could also have significant financial consequences for the MPs, which currently receives a total of over 5,500 euros per month from diets and expenditure compensation, which also ndr.de Themized.

The developments around Petersen are in the context of an ongoing party exclusion process after it was excluded from the AfD parliamentary group in May 2024. The upcoming mandate deprivation is another expression of the drifting relationship between Petersen and its party, which apparently distances itself more from their political membership. The outcome of the upcoming citizenship meeting is therefore of great importance for both Petersen and the political landscape in Hamburg.