Alain Hoffmann has resigned from the Alternative Democratic Reform Party as a result of controversial comments he made on a Facebook post last week.
Party president Alexandra Schoos told Radio 100,7 that Hoffmann had made the decision to resign from the party himself, in an interview on Tuesday morning.
Last week, Hoffmann, who stood as a candidate for the ADR in the local elections in Dudelange, published a controversial comment on a post featuring an RTL interview with The Left's Carole Thoma.
In the comment, Hoffmann said left-wingers should "be stabbed", and suggested refugees were a "filthy group" from which Europeans required protection.
Thoma subsequently filed an official complaint against Hoffmann for inciting violence.
Schoos told the radio station that the ADR's national committee held a meeting on Monday evening to address the incident, in which Hoffmann admitted his post was a mistake and decided to resign in order to protect the party.
