BREMEN, Germany - The founder of the upstart Alternative for Germany (AfD)strengthened his control of the eurosceptic party that has been stealing votes from Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives with a withering attack on his co-leaders.
At a weekend party congress, Bernd Lucke also managed to end a power struggle at the top of the party, that has climbed to 7 percent in opinion polls. He persuaded a two-thirds majority of the 1,473 delegates to back his plan to dump his two co-leaders by December.
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