German eurosceptic party 創立者 追い出すd by eastern 競争相手
By Hans-Edzard Busemann
ESSEN, Germany, July 4 (Reuters) - The 創立者 of the eurosceptic 代案／選択肢 for Germany (AfD) lost a leadership 投票（する） on Saturday to his 競争相手, 先触れ（する）ing a new 焦点（を合わせる） on 移民／移住 for a party 始める，決める up to …に反対する the euro.
Frauke Petry, a 40-year-old businesswoman who 代表するs the AfD in the 議会 of the 明言する／公表する of Saxony, won 60 パーセント of the 投票（する） at an 驚くべき／特命の／臨時の party 会議／協議会.
After his 敗北・負かす, Bernd Lucke left open his 未来 in the party he 設立するd. He had 手配中の，お尋ね者 the AfD to 焦点（を合わせる） on 経済的な 問題／発行するs rather than 移民／移住.
An acrimonious 反目，不和 between the two 競争相手s, who had said they could not work together, had 攻撃する，衝突する the AfD's ratings and left it floundering at a time when it could have capitalised on 怒り／怒る over Greece's 負債 危機.
"Please give me a few months' time to lead this party 支援する on 跡をつける," a smiling Petry said.
Petry belongs to the AfD's 国家の 保守的な wing and has flirted with the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement, which drew up to 25,000 people to 決起大会／結集させるs earlier this year.
Her 支持者s have criticised Lucke for distancing the AfD from anti-Islam 抗議するs and 表明するd 関心 about the "腐食 of Germany's 主権，独立 and 身元".
まっただ中に booing from 対抗者s and 元気づける from 支持者s, Lucke said in a speech to the 会議／協議会 before the 投票（する） that the 列／漕ぐ／騒動 had 傷つける the party.
"We 公然と argued ourselves to shreds," he said.
"This has cost and is costing our party and I 深く，強烈に 悔いる that ... Our 対抗者s in the old parties are feasting on it."
騒動 in the AfD 控訴s （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 Angela Merkel's 保守的なs, who had lost some support to the AfD. On Saturday Lucke 非難するd Merkel for wasting Germans' money on Greece.
設立するd in 2013 as an anti-euro party, the AfD fell just short of the 5 パーセント threshold needed to enter 議会 in the 連邦の 選挙 that year. Since then it has won seats in the European 議会 and five 明言する／公表する 議会s.
It has risen to about 9 パーセント in opinion 投票s, but in 最近の weeks has slipped 支援する to about 5 パーセント.
Until now the party has had three co-leaders, 含むing both Petry and Lucke. Under the party's 支配するs Petry will take over as the 単独の chairman at the end of the year. (令状ing by Madeline 議会s; editing by Andrew Roche)
