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Petr Bystron

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Petr Bystron
Member of the European Parliament[1]
Assumed office
16 July 2024
Member of the Bundestag for Bavaria home
In office
24 September 2017 – July 2024
Succeeded byManfred Schiller
Personal details
Born
Petr Bystroň

(1972-11-30) 30 November 1972 (age 51)[2]
Olomouc, Czechoslovakia
NationalityGerman
Political partyAlternative for Germany
Other political
affiliations
Free Democratic Party (2006–2013)
Alma materSchool of Political Science, Munich
Websitepetrbystron.de

Petr Bystron (born 30 November 1972) is a German politician. He is a member of Bundestag since the German federal election in 2017 for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.[2]

Bystron moved to Germany with his parents in 1987 from the former Czechoslovakia. He was a member of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) from 2006 to 2013.[3]

In 2017 Bystron was monitored by the Bavarian Office for the Protection of the Constitution because of his close ties to the Identitarian movement. On extreme right-wing PI-News Bystron wrote AfD had to be a „protective shield for this organisation". The German National Security Service named Bystron in his report about the monitoring of AfD as a party with anti-constitutional goals.[4]

Bystron and Maximilian Krah were elected as the AfD's top candidates for the 2024 European Parliament election in Germany.

References

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  1. ^ "European Parliament – Petr Bystron". European Parliament (in German). Retrieved 24 September 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Deutscher Bundestag – Petr Bystron". Deutscher Bundestag (in German). Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  3. ^ "Petr Bystroň ends at the head of the Bavarian AfD organization". Novinky.cz (in Czech). Borgis. Czech News Agency. 14 November 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2018.
  4. ^ Meister, Andre; Biselli, Anna; Reuter, Markus (28 January 2019). "Prüffall: Wir veröffentlichen das Verfassungsschutz-Gutachten zur AfD". netzpolitik.org (in German). Retrieved 9 April 2024.
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