BERLIN—Members of a rising nationalist party in Germany elected their leadership Saturday at a convention in the city of Hannover that was overshadowed by protests. Former party co-leader Frauke Petry said AfD was flirting with far-right extremism and quit, saying she would not represent it in the Bundestag. Both Meuthen and Gauland belong to the more conservative wing of the nationalist party. The vote for Gauland followed a tumultuous run-off vote between Georg Pazderski, AfD’s Berlin-branch leader, and Doris von Sayn-Wittgenstein, a state parliament member from Schleswig-Holstein. Later in the day, about 6,500 protesters marched through Hannover chanting slogans against the party, the German news agency dpa reported.

Source: thestar December 02, 2017 16:18 UTC