Krah withdraws from AfD's EU election campaign after spy allegations

AfD's top candidate in the European elections, Maximilian Krah, has announced that he will be withdrawing from the campaign following allegations that he spied for a foreign intelligence agency.

Krah, an MEP since 2014, has denied the allegations but said he wanted to "protect the party and the election campaign" from further damage.

The allegations against Krah were first reported by the German newspaper Der Spiegel, which claimed that he had passed on information about the AfD to the Russian secret service, the FSB.

Krah has denied the allegations, calling them "absurd" and "politically motivated". However, he said he had decided to withdraw from the campaign in order to "protect the party and the election campaign" from further damage.

The AfD is currently the third-largest party in the German Bundestag, and is expected to win a significant number of seats in the European Parliament elections.

Krah's withdrawal from the campaign is a blow to the AfD, and could damage the party's chances of success in the elections.