Germany’s far-right AfD party is considering a split with its radical Fluegel faction to create two separate parties, according to party co-leader Joerg Meuthen.

Separate parties could probably reach more voters than the “current... conflict-prone constellation”, Meuthen told the Tichys Einblick news magazine in an interview published Wednesday. “Everyone knows that Fluegel and its key exponents are costing us a massive amount of votes in the conservative camp,” he said.

Fluegel, which has about 7,000 members, was co-founded by notorious AfD lawmaker Bjoern Hoecke, who has sparked outrage with attacks on Germany’s culture of remembrance for Nazi crimes.