If we look at the spatial distribution of the AfD’s vote, a pattern showing the salience of the urban-rural divide emerges. East and west, town and country. It’s clear by looking at the map that most ...

The AfD’s greatest bastion of support came in eastern Germany, where most constituencies (outside of Berlin) saw the far-right party usher in over 30 per cent of the vote.

Germany's conservatives are projected to win the national election on Sunday while the controversial far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party records its best-ever results in an election ...

Leader of far right AfD Alice Weidel waves a German flag at the AfD party headquarters in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025, after the German national election. Credit: AP/Michael Probst By ...

As the AfD began its inexorable rise in popular support since its founding in 2012, Germany’s other parties pledged to maintain a “fire wall” to keep it out of governing coalitions and ministerial ...

AfD led the Ipsos poll with 25% support, up 4 points from its February election result. The Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union slipped to 24%, down from 28.6%.

Elon Musk threw his support behind Germany's far-right AfD party. Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File 2024-12-29T17:15:51Z ...

Delegates sit in front of the party logo at the constituency meeting of the AfD Lower Saxony on December 20. Newsweek has looked at the odds of the AfD winning Germany's election.

Item 1 of 3 An attendee wears a T-shirt supporting Alternative for Germany party (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel at an AfD election campaign event in Neu-Isenburg, Germany, February 1, 2025.

Elon Musk is nothing if not shameless.. He proved that again this weekend, when he published an op-ed in one of Germany’s biggest newspapers, Die Welt, doubling down on his earlier support for ...