The right-wing populist party has experienced an exponential rise in support over the past 12 months.
Almost one in four German voters have expressed support for the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), as the party recorded its highest-ever polling in the latest public opinion survey.
Polling conducted by INSA for Germany’s Bild newspaper revealed that 23 percent of respondents planned to vote for the anti-globalist, anti-mass immigration party in next year’s European parliamentary elections.
Support for the party has almost doubled from the 12 percent recorded ahead of the last elections in 2019, with the AfD now the second-most popular party in Germany behind the opposition CDU/CSU.
The party appears to have attracted votes from the center-right CDU/CSU, which has seen its support drop by 2.9 percentage points, while support for the Green party has dropped by 5.5 percentage points to 15 percent.