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To: frankw1900 who wrote (624717)	2/4/2017 7:46:22 PM
From: Elsewhere	Respond to of 793846

Thanks, doing good - hope you, too. AfD is a rather young German party. AfD is short for "Alternative für Deutschland", "alternative for Germany". It has been founded in 2013 by an economics professor, Lucke. Initially one of the core party topics was opposition to the euro currency. AfD rapidly gained popularity; members from far right movements and small parties joined it. After a power struggle the current leader, Mrs. Frauke Petry, pushed out the founder. Since then AfD politicians are mainly focusing on anti-immigration policy and continue to gain popularity. In some recent elections they topped the SPD, the Social-Democratic Party. A recent meeting of right-wing politicians in Koblenz showed that the AfD is aligning with other "populist" parties in Europe. Le Pen, Wilders and Petry attended. time.com In this trio I think Petry has the weakest followership. The AfD is no danger for the ruling CDU and Merkel in the upcoming national election in September (yet) but it is exerting pressure on mainstream conservatives to move to stricter immigration-reducing efforts.