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'Basically, JГ¶rg Meuthen is clearly under fire within the party, and he's not powerful enough to kick the Wing out, which he wanted to do,' said Hartleb. JГ¶rg Meuthen launched a surprise attack against his opponents during a party conference in November 2020 Gauland once described HГ¶cke as 'the center of the party.' Meuthen failed to remove HГ¶ckeВ - partly because the rest of the AfD's national leaders, including the two parliamentary leaders Weidel and Alexander Gauland, and Meuthen's co-chairman Tino Chrupalla, believe the groupВ is vital for the party to maintain its far-right voter base. HГ¶cke is the most high-profile figure inВ the Wing,В which,В according to Germany's domestic intelligence agency, enjoys the support of up to 40% of AfD members. Most prominent amongВ these lawmakers is BjГ¶rn HГ¶cke, the leader of the AfD in Thuringia.

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Meanwhile, Meuthen has attempted to install a firewall against the far-right extremists in the party, sometimes initiating expulsion proceedings against politicians who expressed racist views. The AfD has so far successfully challenged the decision in court. Last month,В a BfV investigation concluded that in fact the entire AfD was 'a case of suspected far-right extremism' and could be put under strict surveillance. In an attempt to avoid a split, Meuthen reached out to the more extremist end of the AfD in 2017, assuring them that 'the Wing is and will remain an integral part of our party.'Д«ut the Wing, an informal group often portrayed as a right-wing extremist party within theВ party, has been under persistent pressure from German authorities in the last two years, andВ Meuthen'sВ rapprochement disappearedВ when the Verfassungsschutz (BfV), the German domestic intelligence agency, decided to put the group under heightened surveillance.В The Wing was then formally disbanded last year. Meuthen is considered one of the AfD's most high-profile 'moderates,' a group that has historically been an endangered species.В Previous AfD leaders such as Bernd Lucke and Frauke Petry have been excised from the party for opposing the party's more extreme factions. Friction in the party during theВ Baden-WГјrttemberg electionВ hasВ extended to the national party, because twoВ prominent figures in the state's AfD branch happenВ to be Alice Weidel and JГ¶rg Meuthen, both crucial figures in the national party.

Internal strife pushing voters awayД«ut arguablyВ the AfD's biggest problem has beenВ itself in recent years. Those successes came on the back of the refugee crisis that dominated that year, when the AfD was able to bend the political debate around its own nationalist and at times racist views, going on to become Germany's main opposition party in the Bundestag in 2017 with 12.6% of the national vote.

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'Of course a few people are dissatisfied with the loss of votes, but honestly, it wasn't really surprising,' he told DW.ДЇor one thing, he argued, the AfD was never likely to repeat what he called the 'phenomenal' successes of 2016, when the new party gathered up to a quarter of the vote in a series of regional elections. GlГ¤ser insistedВ the party is in a good position, despite the election setbacks. Managing expectations after early success AfD delegates will likely pin their hopes on the next state election in Saxony-Anhalt in early June, where the AfD took a quarter of the votes in 2016.

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