Surging far-right AfD hopes to score new legitimacy as Germans prepare to vote
With a boost from Team Trump, once-shunned party looks to big gains Sunday
By Eric Lyman - Special to The Washington Times - Thursday, February 20, 2025
Germans will head to the polls Sunday looking for leadership at a deeply uncertain time, but all eyes will be trained on a party likely to finish a distant second.
As center-left Chancellor Olaf Scholz struggles to keep his post, the bigger question is how the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) will fare. The AfD has used the searing immigration question to surge up the polls in recent months.
The AfD is highly unlikely to win, and the country’s mainstream left and right parties say they will refuse to work with it in a coalition government. Still, it will likely score the best result since World War II for a deeply conservative party and gain a new level of political legitimacy.
That prospect sends shivers through the European establishment because of many AfD members’ neo-Nazi sympathies, as well as platform planks that include a hard line on immigration, skepticism about the European Union and support for better relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Critics say the party is still trying to break free from Germany’s dark Nazi past.
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