Alternative for Germany is set to make strong gains in local elections that underlined the far right party’s advance in Germany’s western industrial heartland and presented the first poll test for Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s coalition government.
According to early estimates released by state broadcaster WDR on Sunday, AfD secured about 15 per cent of the votes in municipal elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous federal state, up from 5 per cent in 2020.
AfD, which is co-led by Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, became the second-largest party in parliament in federal elections in February after obtaining a record 21 per cent vote share, including strong results in the country’s former communist east.
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