The AfD has become a radical right party deeply linked to the broad spectrum of reactionary, racist and nationalist groups in Germany.

Despite all its internal clashes, it has established itself in 13 out of 16 state parliaments and it will, in all likelihood, enter the German parliament, the Bundestag, in September.

While the AfD had been polling 13 to 15% in 2016, it is currently down to 8 to 9% in 2017. Yet, surveys in Saxony currently show it standing at 20% which is more than double what the party got there in 2014 at the beginning of the AfD success story.

8 to 9% in the national elections on 24 September would give the AfD some sixty Members of Parliament, at least half of them far rightists.

They will also be in control of the huge amount of public resources offered to a recognised faction like that in the national parliament.

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