Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has put its former head who has become a hard-right politician since being removed from the job several years ago under scrutiny.

Germany’s main opposition party has launched an effort to expel from its ranks a former head of the country’s intelligence agency, weeks after he complained of what he said was a move toward “eliminatory racism against whites.”.

Immigration is a side issue in this year’s German election campaign, but that hasn’t stopped the country’s biggest far-right party from trying to play it up.