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 ...

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 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 ...

Weidel suggested AfD wouldn't have to make many concessions to secure a theoretical coalition, arguing that the Union largely copied its program and deriding its "Pyrrhic victory." "It won't be ...

The victory for AfD is the first by a far-right political party since Nazis ruled the country. The AfD also finished a close second in the race for the eastern Saxony state that neighbors Thuringia.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...