Alternative for Germany
Far-right political party in Germany
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| April 2025 | AfD becomes the leading party for the first time in opinion polling, marking a significant milestone in the party's political trajectory. |
| 2025 | AfD achieves its strongest electoral performance to date, gaining 20.6% of constituency votes and 20.8% of party list votes, becoming the second-largest party with 69 seats in opposition. |
| 2025 | Alternative for Germany (AfD) polls show strong regional variations, with highest support in Saxony at 32.8% and Berlin at 29.2%, while lowest in Saarland at 4.4% and Hamburg at 7.5%. |
| 2025 | AfD reaches its highest national support level at 20.8%, demonstrating continued political relevance and growth. |
| 2025 | AfD participates in Hamburg state parliament election, gaining 7.7% of votes and securing seats in opposition. |
| February 2025 | Alice Weidel publicly states the AfD's policy towards the European Union, advocating for working together to reform the EU from within by reducing its competences and dismantling its bureaucratic structure. |
| February 2025 | Some high-ranking AfD members criticized party leader Chrupalla's pro-Moscow foreign policy position. |
| February 23 2025 | Alternative for Germany (AfD) achieved a significant electoral breakthrough, winning 20.8% of the vote in the German federal election, securing second place behind the CDU/CSU. The party dramatically improved its performance compared to the 2021 election, gaining 10.4 percentage points. |
| 2025 | AfD included a platform in their federal election manifesto calling for limits on Chinese companies' involvement in Germany's seaports and digital infrastructure, demonstrating a nuanced approach to China-Germany economic relations. |
| February 2025 | Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and AfD leader Weidel announced the start of cooperation between AfD and Fidesz. |
| February 2025 | Maximillian Krah and Matthias Helferich confirmed to be joining the parliament following the federal elections. |
| January 2025 | AfD voted alongside the CDU in a federal parliament motion regarding migration after a deadly knife attack by an Afghan migrant, which led to subsequent political controversy. |
| January 2025 | Co-leader Alice Weidel affirmed support for Israel's existence while expressing uncertainty about resolving the conflict, highlighting internal party divisions on the Israel issue. |
| January 2025 | The Karlsruhe branch of AfD initiates a controversial campaign by distributing 'Abschiebetickets' (deportation tickets) flyers, which prompted criminal police investigations for potential incitement to hatred. |
| January 12 2025 | AfD leadership voted to formally replace the Young Alternative for Germany (JA) as its official youth organisation. |
| 2024 | During an election rally in Sömmerda, Thuringian AfD leader Björn Höcke denounces the 'Made by Vielfalt' campaign as hypocrisy and wishes economic hardship on the companies supporting the initiative. |
| 2024 | Poggenburg endorses the Freie Sachsen (Free Saxons) for the Saxony state election, effectively abandoning his own party. |
| 2024 | AfD shows significant growth, reaching 29.2% in Berlin and 30.6% in Saarland, indicating continued political momentum. |
| 2024 | AfD experienced a substantial membership increase to 46,881 members, marking its highest recorded membership to date. |
| 2024 | In Saxony, AfD won 30.6% of votes and 2 seats as the second-largest party. |
| 2024 | AfD further expanded its European Parliament election results, with Maximilian Krah as list leader, receiving 6,324,008 votes (15.89%) and maintaining 4 seats, now part of the ESN group and ranking second in the election. |
| 2024 | Co-leader Tino Chrupalla reversed the party's pro-Israel position, calling for an end to Germany's current relationship with Israel and arms exports. |
| 2024 | AfD achieved its highest result in Thuringia, winning 32.8% of votes and 10 seats, becoming the largest opposition party. |
| 2024 | Hans-Christoph Berndt, AfD's lead candidate for Brandenburg state election, proposed banning rainbow flags from public buildings if elected. |
| 2024 | After the European Parliament elections, the AfD attempted to rejoin the ID group by replacing controversial candidate Maximilian Krah with René Aust as head of their delegation. When this failed, they formed a new ethnonationalist European parliamentary group called ESN, primarily composed of AfD members and other similar parties. |
| 2024 | The Alternative for Germany (AfD) became the first far-right party since the Nazi Party to win a plurality of seats in a state election in Thuringia, marking a significant political milestone in post-war German electoral history. |
| 2024 | AfD parliamentary group in the Landtag of Lower Saxony introduced a motion to ban rainbow flags from public buildings. |
| 2024 | In Brandenburg, AfD secured 29.23% of votes and 7 seats, emerging as the second-largest party. |
| December 2024 | AfD announced its intention to cut ties with JA due to the organisation's classification by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution. |
| August 2024 | AfD formed the Europe of Sovereign Nations party. |
| August 24 2024 | AfD politician Maximilian Krah tweets a provocative image of the Solingen stabbing site overlaid with the 'Made by Vielfalt' campaign logo, attempting to criticize the diversity campaign in the wake of a violent incident. |
| June 2024 | A large number of AfD delegates boycotted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's speech to the Bundestag. |
| June 24 2024 | AfD formed parliamentary groups with Die Heimat (formerly NPD) in Lauchhammer and Oberspreewald-Lausitz, marking the first official coalition between the AfD and a far-right party at the local level, with support from AfD chairman Tino Chrupalla. |
| June 9 2024 | The Alternative for Germany (AfD) won 16% of the vote in the European Parliament elections, securing second place behind CDU/CSU and improving nearly five percentage points from the 2019 election. The party prevailed in all five former East German states, with party leader Tino Chrupalla calling the results 'historic'. |
| May 2024 | AfD was expelled from the Identity and Democracy group following controversial remarks by lead candidate Maximilian Krah about Nazi Germany and the Waffen-SS. |
| May 2024 | Höcke was convicted and fined €13,000 by the state court in Halle for using a banned Nazi-associated slogan in his 2021 campaign speech. |
| February 2024 | Relations between AfD and French National Rally became strained after AfD spokesmen attended the 2023 Potsdam far-right meeting. |
| January 2024 | Alice Weidel ended her professional relationship with Roland Hartwig, an advisor who was present at the controversial far-right meeting. |
| January 2024 | Correctiv reported on the secret meeting, leading to widespread political condemnation. Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the plan, and protests erupted across Germany calling for the AfD to be banned. |
| January 2024 | Senior AfD members, including Roland Hartwig (advisor to party co-leader Alice Weidel), were revealed to have attended a meeting discussing mass deportation plans with neo-Nazi influencers, which triggered nationwide anti-extremism protests. |
| 2023 | AfD experienced over 86 violent attacks on party representatives, more than any other German party. |
| 2023 | AfD's Bundestag caucus accused foreign minister Annalena Baerbock and economic affairs minister Robert Habeck of launching an 'economic war' against China, marking a significant shift in the party's stance towards China. |
| 2023 | Polling shows AfD as the second most popular party in Germany. |
| 2023 | AfD was barred from the Bremen state election due to internal divisions, resulting in no representation. |
| 2023 | In the Berlin repeat state election, AfD gained 4 seats compared to the 2021 election. |
| 2023 | AfD membership rebounds to 34,000 members. |
| 2023 | In Hesse, AfD obtained 18.4% of votes and 9 seats, becoming the second-largest party. |
| 2023 | AfD supported US president Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital, as stated by party member Petr Bystron. |
| 2023 | AfD achieved 14.6% of votes and 10 seats in the Bavaria state parliament election, becoming the third-largest party. |
| 2023 | During the Hamas-led attack on Israel, party leader Chrupalla condemned the attack but called for diplomacy, while other MPs like Norbert Kleinwächter and Rüdiger Lucassen were critical of this stance and defended Israeli actions. |
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