 She could face the loss of her driver's license for one year and pay a fine of one month's salary.Despite receiving a vote of confidence from the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, she stepped down from her office as leader of the Evangelical Church and as bishop on 24 February 2010.An attack on the right-wing AfD in the course of a Bible workshop during the Evangelical Church Convention in 2017 in which she stated that the AfD "all German" policy was implicitly "nazi" caused widespread comment and controversy.