She failed several times in her candidacy for state chairmanship of AfD Bavaria, and also ran unsuccessfully for the
Bundestag. In 2018 she was elected to the
Bavarian state parliament on the AfD Party list. Ebner-Steiner belongs to the völkisch fraction within AfD, formerly organized in "
Der Flügel". She has strong ties to
Björn Höcke. ==Notes==