That the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is set for a historic comeuppance in the upcoming national election, the result fuelled by global far-right wave and Trump backers.
Polls show the AfD at 21%, up from 10% in 2021, placing the party to secure a seat on the opposition benches and jolting Germany’s historically centrist politics.
Christian Democrats Union/Christian Social Union (union led by Friedrich Merz) continue to trail at 28%, Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats are still trailing at 16% as well. 
Stimulating his supporters at a rally in Karlsruhe, one of the few AfD lawmakers to have openly joined the party declared: “We will not let anybody or anything get in our way!” Branding it “Deutschland Zuerst!” (“Germany First”), fliers from that event mimicked the Trump-speak.
U.S. support is key for AfD. Elon Musk and Vice-President JD Vance rode to the party’s aid, Musk participating recently at an AfD event with video. Both AfD leaders and members have met with Trump at his rallies, hoping further to consolidate a sense of common purpose.
Urged by critics of the AfD’s radical positions, which include mass expulsions and closer coordination with Russia. Germany still experiencing constant surveillance by its intelligence agency on possible far-right radicalism in the party.
This critical event comes as Germany votes, watched closely world over. The outcome of the vote could tip that balance – it could be an earthquake in Europe, shifting the post-war consensus on which nationalism in Europe was achieved and consolidating the right-wing of that continent further.
