1 day ago · Election campaign placards, including of the Volt party and the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), hang from lampposts on February 17, 2025 in Berlin, Germany. | Sean Gallup/Getty Images She knows what she has to say and do in order to stay in power and that I think is quite dangerous.

Sep 2, 2024 · The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era, dealing a crushing blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government...

19 hours ago · The far-right, anti-immigration Alternative for Germany, or AfD, has been running in second place with around 20% of the vote — well above its previous best of 12.6% in a national election, from 2017 — and has fielded its first candidate for chancellor in Alice Weidel.

Feb 13, 2025 · AfD is going into the Feb. 23 election with renewed confidence and radical language. Alice Weidel, its first candidate for chancellor, has embraced the term “remigration” as the party calls for large-scale deportations of people with no legal entitlement to be in Germany — a politically loaded word that featured in last year’s controversy.

Sep 1, 2024 · Germany’s far right claimed its biggest electoral success since World War II, winning a regional vote in the east of the country Sunday, according to the preliminary result.

1 day ago · An economic slump, an immigration crisis and the lifting of a security blanket provided for decades by the U.S. are issues on the minds of German voters. The far-right AfD is polling in second place.

3 days ago · But if polls are right, the AfD will become Germany's second largest political force after elections this Sunday. That would be a huge shift in tectonic plates, not just at home but across Europe.