splinter group

Even though he had been officially adopted by the party's ruling body, another candidate from a splinter group also registered himself under the party's name.

Then he mocked the “tiny splinter group … that believes you can do these things. … Their number is negligible and they are stupid.”

A splinter group, the Northeast cartel, was among those designated as a terrorist organization last month by the Trump administration.

The latter group was also racked with infighting between established members and splinter groups pushing explicitly white nationalist ideas.

It is designated as one by the UN, US, EU and UK, among many others, as it started as a splinter group of al-Qaeda, which it broke away from in 2016.