22-04-2017 17:57 via rocketnews.com

Clashes as German anti-immigration party power struggle spills over

Cologne (Germany) (AFP) – Germany’s anti-immigration AfD handed its own leader a humiliating setback Saturday five months before a general election, as thousands of demonstrators rallied against its party congress.
The four-year-old Alternative for Germany has harnessed public anger over Chancellor Angela Merkel’s decision to let in more than one million asylum seekers since 2015.
But its poll numbers have plunged in recent months as the influx waned, and amid a bitter power s
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