“Schampus Max” from AfD: He also worked for Opus Dei in Switzerland.

The real “traitor” is AfD member Maximilian Grau, the AfD's leading candidate in the European elections. As it emerged this week, the 46-year-old allegedly used a Chinese spy – despite warnings from his own team. He and another AfD colleague are also suspected of being in the Kremlin's pay. Craw vehemently denies all the allegations.

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In the AfD, Krah enjoys the support of the so-called ethnic faction around right-wing extremist Björn Höcke and is following suit in the European Parliament.

In 2019, the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution classified Grau's statements as ethno-nationalist, Islamophobic, racist and unconstitutional. That didn't stop Grahm from writing a book called “Politics from the Right.” Write a report. It was published in 2023 by Götz Kubitschek – one of the most important players in the so-called New Rights, according to the Office for the Protection of the Constitution.

Craw makes it clear on social media that New Right youth are very important to him. On his TikTok account – in addition to attacks against the German traffic light government, the US and immigrants – you can also find dating references such as “don't look at porn”, “look straight” and “above all: don't”. Let someone tell you that you should be “sweet, soft, weak, and left-wing.”

In addition to his sharp right-wing leanings, the German likes to celebrate his closeness with China. In 2021, he posted on YouTube congratulating Beijing on the 70th anniversary of the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Kra makes no mention of the Chinese regime's oppression of Tibet. Even when secret documents proved that China imprisoned hundreds of thousands of Uyghurs, he did nothing wrong: the Chinese government decided to forcefully educate a population that was “on the one hand Muslim but on the other hand illiterate.”

Kra, meanwhile, has become a loyal lobbyist in the European Parliament for the concerns of the Communist regime in Beijing – backed by AfD party leader Alice Weidel, who has close ties to China, where she worked for several years (and wrote her PhD on the Chinese pension system).

Kra has aggressively promoted Huawei, China's state-owned telecommunications company, and defended himself against claims that many in Germany want to ban Chinese technology over fears of data theft and espionage. Such security concerns, according to Kraw, are based only on a “general mistrust” of China.

Craw doesn't seem impressed by the current scandals. He continued to make it clear to reporters on Wednesday morning that he would be the AfD's primary candidate. But AfD's mood seems to be changing now.

“Our entire campaign has been ruined by the allegations,” an AfD representative told “Spiegel”. “We advertised as patriots – we stood against the Brussels swamp. Now we seem to be the swamp ourselves.