The Eurosceptic, anti-immigration Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has pulled up to third place in four of the last five polls conducted. A survey published on Sunday by the polling institute Emnid in Bild am Sonntag newspaper has the AfD on 11%, behind Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union on 36% and the centre-left SPD on 22%. According to a projection published last week by Berlin’s Tagesspiegel newspaper, the far-right party could end up with as many of 89 out of 703 members in the Bundestag. Initially dismissed as a fake by the AfD press team, Weidel’s lawyer no longer rejects the authorship of the email. Weidel, whose party wants to seal EU borders and set up holding camps for asylum seekers abroad, has rejected the accusation.

Source: The Guardian September 17, 2017 16:07 UTC