title: Husband of far-right AfD co-leader to quit party, lawmaker says
text: DUESSELDORF, Germany (Reuters) - Marcus Pretzell, a senior member of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the husband of party co-leader Frauke Petry, on Tuesday told a regional party branch he wanted to leave the AfD, a regional lawmaker in the AfD said.  Mr Pretzell told the parliamentary group he wants to leave the parliamentary group and then also the AfD,  said Helmut Seifen, a lawmaker in the regional assembly of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia said. Pretzell declined to comment. Earlier on Tuesday German media reported that his wife, Petry, would leave the party that became the third largest group in parliament after Sunday s national election. 