The right-wing AFD will be the largest party in Germany to the next elections, his leader says that after a huge impulse in support he saw in the second place at the mainstream conservatives

The leader of the Alternative for Germany (AFD), the Political Party in Germany Germany, has boldly argued that it will be the largest party in the country to the next elections, after finishing second in the Federal elections on Sunday.

Alice Weidel, 46, claimed that her party could “overcome the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) over the next few years for the next elections … to become the most powerful political force in Germany.

Sunday’s elections saw AFD, accused of being far right and pro-Putin, earned more than 20% of the country’s votes, occupying 152 places in Bundestag and making it the main opposition party, the first time that It is an extremely straight party has ever held the function in Germany’s post -war history.

Her party doubled her votes in just four years, taking 10.4% of votes in 2021. The party dominated in East Germany, except for dissent pockets in Berlin and Leipzig.

Many of the most important figures of the law, including Elon Musk and Viktor Orban of Hungary, have come out of their way to congratulate Weidel and the success of her party in the last elections.

Musk, who addressed the AFD supporters previously and said that the party is “the best hope for the future of Germany,” wrote about X: “Congratulations Alice Weidel! At this rate of growth, AFD will be the majority party in the following elections. “

Weidel said he woke up yesterday to find out that he had missed a call from Mr. Musk and said he personally congratulated me.

Viktor Orban, the pro-Putin leader of Hungary, also congratulated Weidel in a position at X, writing: “People in Germany voted to change the huge number. I want to congratulate Alice Weidel to double the AFD part of the votes. Good luck and God bless Germany! ‘

Dr. Katrin Schreiter, the main lecturer in German and history at King’s College London, told Mailonline that, despite AFD successes, he is unlikely to get more than this one in the future.

“2025 could have seen the height of AFD success as these choices played on its basic subject: migration. This is unlikely to reappear to the following elections. Firewall will hold as long as possible mathematically to build a functional coalition government without AFD.

“The CDU has already started in January to angle for AFD voters, using their anti-immigration position through an ultimate parliamentary initiative, which would have taken more control over German EU borders.

“However, yesterday’s results show instead that CDU has lost voters at AFD. Merz could take this as a lesson that right -wing voting fishing doesn’t work.

“German policy in the next few years will become stagnant, because many of the necessary reforms will need a two -thirds in Parliament. To do this without AFD, a CDU -led government should cooperate with the parties to the left of the political spectrum. This will make it difficult to find a consensus. ‘

She added that she was inadequate for foreign nations, such as the US, to have played such an essential role in Germany’s elections.

“Any interference of a foreign government in the national elections on the other hand is ethically debatable and unacceptable from a political point of view. After the Second World War, the US and Germany held a special relationship, which, despite the increasing criticisms and the emancipation from the American ally from German reunification in 1990, offered US politicians a political platform in Germany. Merz is right in calling this, ”Schreiter said.

This year’s federal federal elections, called by Scholz in November, following an internal crisis on the country’s economic policies, has registered the largest participation of voters in 40 years.

82.5% of the Germans voted in elections, a strong increase from 76.6% in 2021.

Dr. Alex Clarkson, a lecturer in German and European and international studies at King’s College London, said about elections: “While strategic chaos and increasing hostility in Washington through the Trump administration has generated shock waves throughout the political system. German mostly the main goal of German voters has remained on issues closer to home, such as economic growth and migration.

“Even the flagrant that mixes in the election campaign in support of the extreme right AFD by higher figures in the Trump administration, such as Elon Musk and JD Vance, is not likely to have been central to think of conservative or extremely straight voters, who are immersed in European political cultures often very different from the ideology of the US Republican Party. “

“In a political environment in which AFD is the largest right-wing alternative, any failure of Merz to achieve political successes that have tangible effects on everyday life could mean that the result of the February 2025 elections can sow Only the disaster seeds next time the Germans go to the ballot box in 2029, he warned.

While Friedrich Merz’s CDU won the competition comfortably, surprising 28.6% of the votes and occupying 208 seats, faces an upward fight to form a coalition government with the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Chancellor Olaf. Scholz.

The SPD SENIOR figures warned last night that the coalition discussions will be difficult, one describing the extent of their differences regarding the economic policy as “incredible”.

Klara Geywitz, the deputy leader of the SPD, said: “Friedrich Merz’s cduh presented an electoral manifesto that would create additional billions of gaps in an already tense budget.

“In this sense, we are at the beginning of a very difficult process, whose result is still open, from my point of view.

“You can see that there is quite obvious an incredible difference between the CDU manifesto, which has promised massive tax reductions for the big winners and the current budget situation. And just talking about this is probably very complicated.