The results suggest that the AfD mobilised an estimated 2 million non-voters, more than any other political party in Germany. Some 83.5 per cent of the eligible population voted in Sunday’s ...

Friedrich Merz, who won the election for the conservatives, believes the only reason the AfD exists is because of ... and as the light blue areas of the map show, it was dominant in the five ...

Demonstrators in Efert in Thuringia, in the former East Germany, mount a counter-protest at a AfD election rally a day before September 1 elections for the state parliament. The sign accuses the ...

There's growing concern in Germany that society is becoming increasingly polarized. The question of how far right the AfD is threatens to further deepen the divide ...

Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) has caused shock across the political spectrum by winning an election for the first time in the party’s 10-year history. Germany’s ...

‘YOU CAN’T ban 10 million AfD voters.’ Amid the tensions in Germany over the rise of the far right, new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stands at the Neue Wache Memorial for Victims of War ...

“What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes ...

Instead, Mr. Merz turned to the center-left Social Democrats as a coalition partner, increasing the sense of disenfranchisement among AfD voters. Image Police search a bus that was used by anti ...

Opponents argue that this would further promote social division and that 10 million AfD voters would not simply disappear. Supporters of the ban insist that enemies of democracy should not be put in a ...

Related Germany's CDU, Social Democrats reaches coalition government deal Elon Musk says only far-right AfD party 'can save ... of seats in February's national election, denying either of the ...