The party scored its first victory in a state election last year in the eastern state of Thuringia, securing almost a third of the vote. Parts of the AfD, including three state chapters in the ...

Hard-right political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the first of its ilk to win in the nation since the Second World War, exit polls showed. AfD took between 30.5% and 33.5% of ...

But the far-right AfD party's victory in an election on Sunday in the eastern state of Thuringia where he lives, and the daily racism he says his wife encounters, have convinced him to leave the ...

But on Sunday, German voters showed he does not control theirs. The AfD’s central pledge is to counteract the so-called Great Replacement, a conspiracy theory that claims white Europeans or ...

The overall risk of an AfD victory in the upcoming February snap election is very low. Most Germans view the party negatively, and thousands have marched in protest of its normalization of racist ...

It’s not a surprise. An ascendence of AfD into the mainstream would mark a political upheaval as unprecedented and countercultural as Trump’s victory in the U.S. The party hopes to take an axe ...

Höcke is capable of pulling a big crowd, he is lauded in these parts. The AfD’s victory in the state in elections last year made it the first far right party to win any sort of election since ...

The AfD’s projected strong showing on Sunday amounted ... of judges and amendments to the regional state constitution. Its victory will be felt far beyond the two eastern states.

Under pressure from the far right, Germany’s conservative chancellor had vowed to turn away asylum-seekers at the country’s ...