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Bernd Lucke founder of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) resigned his membership of the party on Wednesday evening after being voted out of the leadership at a party conference last weekend.
Lucke warned that the party has "fallen irretrievably into the wrong hands" as he announced his decision to the press.
He said that carrying on within the party would have meant acting as a "bourgeois cloak" for political views which he vociferously rejects.