The populist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party is now Germany’s second largest party, displacing the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from that position for the first time since the founding of the modern German state. According to the ARD morning magazine’s latest Infratest dimap poll, the AfD has “pushed past the SPD for the first time” and the “governing coalition [between the conservative... 

The establishment parties in Germany are bracing themselves for what is expected to be a major breakthrough by the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party this coming Sunday in the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Polls indicate that the AfD might come first, defeating both Angela Merkel’s ruling CDU party and her socialist party coalition partners, the SPD. The AfD has used the Third World invasion...