Elections in Berlin: The AfD
With less than two weeks until the local elections I would like to continue with my series explaining Germany's political spectrum by talking about a political party that is gaining a lot of support in the country right now: the AfD. AfD stands for 'Alternative für Deutschland' – 'alternative for Germany'. The AfD is very young, founded just at the beginning of 2013 as a reaction to the European financial crisis and especially the Greek bailout. One of its founders and for it