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 ...

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 ...

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 AfD's highly controversial top candidate in Thuringia, Björn Höcke, hailed a "historic victory" Germany's anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) is celebrating a "historic success ...

But there is more to be said regarding the electoral success of the AfD than the demise of the leftists, especially for Thuringia. This victory has historical significance. It was in the Thuringian ...

1, 2024, state election — the first such victory for a far-right party in Germany since the Nazi era. The AfD’s role in a governing coalition in Thuringia remains to be determined. After the ...

An AfD victory in the state election would be a particular embarrassment for the Social Democrats (SPD), which has won elections in Brandenburg and governed the state of 2.5 million people since ...

The success of Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) in two state ballots in Germany follows rhetoric that included opposing Berlin's support for Ukraine, delivering a concerning message for Kyiv ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time since 1945, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won regional elections, securing 35% of the vote in Saxony and 33.5% in Thuringia. This historic victory ...