The AfD became the first party considered by many to be far-right to come out victorious in a state election in Germany since the World War II, when it won Brandenburg in September.

Germany's far-right lawmakers vowed to dress smartly, minimise parliamentary cat-calling, and signed up to a short manifesto ...

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) has become the first far-right party to win a state election in Germany since the Nazi era, dealing a crushing blow to Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government with ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now Germany’s largest opposition group and even topped several opinion polls – briefly putting it ahead of now-Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right ...

The humiliation of Merz and his shaky CDU-SPD government must have provided grim satisfaction to the AfD’s voters and leaders. Just four days earlier, on May 2, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency ...

People walk past a truck with an election campaign poster featuring Friedrich Merz, leader of conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), in Oberhausen, Germany, on Feb. 21.

Supporters of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, at a rally last month. The party’s popularity has slipped since the last elections, but the AfD looks likely to stay in Parliament.

Yet the trend of young voters choosing the AfD for their politics is a phenomenon that is a rising across Germany. Polls for the upcoming election on Sunday, and the AfD’s success in regional ...

But it's the rise of the far-right Alternative for Germany party that caught the attention of many analysts ahead of this election. The AfD has surged in popularity and is currently polling second ...