{"id":77426,"date":"2026-08-23T11:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/77426\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:08:11","slug":"one-in-two-germans-unafraid-of-far-right-afd-party-ahead-of-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/77426\/","title":{"rendered":"One in two Germans unafraid of far-right AfD party ahead of elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nearly half of Germans are unafraid of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), according to a survey by the opinion research institute Insa, ahead of three critical state elections next month.<\/p>\n

The anti-immigrant nationalist party is soaring in popularity, polling ahead of all others, surveys show.<\/p>\n

The Insa poll asked respondents: “Are you afraid of the AfD?” Some 49% answered “No”, while 42% answered “Yes,” and 9% did not answer.<\/p>\n

The survey, commissioned by the Bild tabloid, found people over the age of 70 were most afraid of the party, with 55% saying yes, they do fear the AfD.<\/p>\n

More than half of the 1,002 respondents consider the AfD to be far-right, with 53% saying “Yes” when asked, the poll found. Some 37% did not regard the AfD as far-right, and 10% did not respond.<\/p>\n

The AfD, Germany’s largest opposition party, was founded in 2013 as an anti-euro party then shifted direction to focus on reducing migration.<\/p>\n

At state level, Germany’s domestic intelligence service has classified the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt as a confirmed far-right extremist group. That state is set to hold elections on September 6 and the party is clearly in the lead there, with 41% to 43% support.<\/p>\n

In Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia, too, officials classify the party’s state branches as far-right extremist.<\/p>\n

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