Young Germans flocked to opposite ends of the political spectrum in the federal election, rejecting the centre.

When Elon Musk posted on X in December that the only thing that could “save Germany” was the AfD, he was embracing a political force that has moved steadily to the extreme right since it was founded ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Germany’s economy had stalled. In 2024, German GDP was 0.2 percent lower than in the previous year, and forecasts for 2025 are bleak. The ruling coalition elected in 2021 fell apart in November, and a ...

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the heart of power.

Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and has become a ...

Germany’s domestic intelligence service classified the AfD as a suspected extremist group in 2021 and has also labeled it as an extremist organization in three German states. In 2023 ...

The party has doubled its support since the previous election in 2021, when it received 10.3% ... or Bundestag. The AfD reached a particularly large number of voters in eastern Germany, where ...

AfD set for record national result Polling in ... But the party is emboldened - predicted support is around double what it achieved in the 2021 federal election, making it Germany's second most ...

While still performing strongly in eastern Germany, the AfD’s vote share dropped in the 2021 elections to 10.3 percent, making it the fifth largest party in the Bundestag. The party struggled to ...

Talking to voters about the many non-conspiracy reasons they vote for a far-right party can help break "the glass door." ...