Charlotte Knobloch had Wednesday called, in a speech about Holocaust victims, the Alternative for Germany a treat to democracy, sparking a walk-out of AfD regional politicians. Knobloch, a former leader of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, now heads the community in the Bavarian city of Munich. She added that she "had expected the AfD to use the Bavarian state parliament for self-promotion -- I just hadn't expected a row of such proportions". The five-year-old AfD, the country's biggest opposition party, opposes multiculturalism, Islam and the immigration policies of Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom it labels a "traitor". SEE ALSO: Jewish leader attacks AfD over Holocaust remembrance

Source: The Local January 25, 2019 08:15 UTC