FILE PHOTO: Bjoern Hoecke, Alternative for Germany (AfD) regional party leader, attends a session of the state parliament in Thuringia in Erfurt, Germany, March 4, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke
BERLIN (Reuters) - The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has scolded one of its two co-leaders after he said the party should split and expel a radical wing within its ranks as the only way to build a broader support base.
The suggestion of a split by co-leader Joerg Meuthen reflects a deepening crisis in Germany's largest opposition party set off by the domestic intelligence agency's decision last month to step up monitoring of "Der Fluegel" - The Wing - that it designated as an extremist organisation within the AfD.
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