The far-right Alternative for Germany elected two figures to lead the party for the next two years on Saturday, after one of its co-chairs resigned in January saying he had become too radical.

Delegates voted for the Alternative for Germany’s remaining co-chair, Tino Chrupalla, to lead the party with parliamentary caucus leader Alice Weidel.

The vote became necessary after EU lawmaker Joerg Meuthen resigned from the leadership in January, warning the party risked being pushed into “total isolation and ever closer to the political edge” with its current course.

Meuthen was the third party leader to resign since Alternative for Germany was established in 2013. All cited extremist tendencies within the party which also came under scrutiny by the intelligence service German interior.

Originally formed in opposition to the euro, the party swung to the right in 2015 to capitalize on resentment against migrants and entered the federal parliament for the first time in 2017. Lately it has strongly opposed almost all Pandemic restrictions and Western sanctions against Russia during the war in Ukraine.

The party, known by its German acronym AfD, won just over 10% of the vote in national elections last year.

Delegates to the AfD congress in the eastern town of Riesa also voted on Friday to change its statutes so that in future the party can be led by a single leader. The proposal was championed by Bjoern Hoecke, the party leader in the state of Thuringia, who is considered to be on the far right of the party and has espoused revisionist views of Germany’s Nazi past.