Thirteen members of the AfD, including the co-leader of the party that is currently polling between 9% and 14%, walked out of its parliamentary group in the southwestern state of Baden-Württemberg on Wednesday in protest at the failure to expel fellow MP Wolfgang Gideon. [...]
In the book, entitled Green Communism and the Dictatorship of Minorities, Gedeon compares Holocaust deniers such as David Irving to Chinese dissidents, claiming, among other things, that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a faked historical pamphlet purporting to outline a Jewish plan to control the global economy and media, were in fact real. [...]
Petry has previously fallen out with another leader of the AfD’s moderate wing. The founder Bernd Lucke resigned from the political group in protest at its growing xenophobic and “pro-Russian tendencies” in July 2015, after a series of clashes with Petry.
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