According to the EuroAlternative, an outlet that specializes in EU News & policy debates, “on Sunday, it [AFD] scored a surprise 9.7% in a state vote in Saxony, winning its first seats in a regional parliament and building domestic momentum following its entry into the European Parliament earlier this year.”
“The CDU has to admit that its euro bailout policy is not working,” said rauke Petry, the 39-year-old businesswoman who headed the AfD’s election campaign in Saxony.
She hailed the the vote results as “a sign that Frau Merkel should finally take the AfD seriously”.
The AFD is deemed by various political analysts a party “not quite like” the UK’s Independence Party (UKIP) in Britain and the National Front in France headed by Marine Le Pen, or the Freiheitspartei headed by Geert Wilders in Holland, especially when it comes to political themes regarding “strengthening the economy of the Euro,” or “Islam and Europe.”
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