Lars Patrick Berg
Political career
Political career
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Berg had been a member of the [Alternative for Germany](/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany "Alternative for Germany") since March 2013\. He was a member of the AfD Baden\-Württemberg state executive committee from April 2013 to October 2014 and from July 2015 to March 2016\. He was elected to the [Baden\-Württemberg](/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg "Baden-Württemberg") state parliament in 2016 election with 15\.9 percent of the votes in the constituency of Tuttlingen\-Donaueschingen (constituency 55\).  There he served as domestic policy spokesman for the AfD parliamentary group and as a member of the Committee on Home Affairs, [Digitisation](/wiki/Digitization "Digitization") and [Migration](/wiki/Human_migration "Human migration") and the Committee on Europe and International Affairs. Berg was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Baden\-Württemberg Development Cooperation Foundation (SEZ).  After his election to the [European Parliament](/wiki/European_Parliament "European Parliament"), he resigned his seat in the state parliament.  succeeded him.

Berg was also deputy chairman of the board of the AfD\-affiliated [Desiderius Erasmus Foundation](/wiki/Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung "Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung").

Berg was elected to the European Parliament in the [2019 European elections](/wiki/2019_European_Parliament_election "2019 European Parliament election") via the 4th place on the list of the Alternative for Germany.  There he was a member of the [Identity and Democracy Group (ID)](/wiki/Identity_and_Democracy "Identity and Democracy") and a member of the [Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET)](/wiki/AFET "AFET"), the [Subcommittee on Human Rights (DROI)](/wiki/DROI "DROI"), the [Subcommittee on Security and Defence (SEDE)](/wiki/SEDE "SEDE") and the Delegation for relations with the [Maghreb](/wiki/Maghreb "Maghreb") countries and the [Arab Maghreb Union](/wiki/Arab_Maghreb_Union "Arab Maghreb Union"), including the EU\-Morocco, EU\-Tunisia and EU\-Algeria Joint Parliamentary Committees (DMAG). Through his membership in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, he frequently participated in meetings with representatives of other countries, e.g. in October 2019 he met with the Indian Prime Minister [Narendra Modi](/wiki/Narendra_Modi "Narendra Modi") in [Delhi](/wiki/Delhi "Delhi").

In May 2021, Berg declared his resignation from the AfD and the ID faction; he criticized the resolutions of the [AfD](/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany "Alternative for Germany") party conference of April 2021, in which, among other things, a withdrawal from the EU was demanded by Germany. In the meantime, he was a non\-attached member before joining the [European Conservatives and Reformists Group](/wiki/European_Conservatives_and_Reformists_Group "European Conservatives and Reformists Group") on 23 June 2021\.

Berg has been a member of the Liberal\-Conservative Reformers party from July 2021 to January 2023\. Since January 2023 he is a member of the Alliance Germany party.


Why did Berg resign from the AfD and the ID faction?