What is Alternative for Germany?
{{Infobox political party | name = Alternative for Germany | abbreviation = AfD | native_name = Alternative für Deutschland | logo = File:AfD Logo 2021.svg | caption = | colorcode = #009FE1 | leader = | leader1_title = Leaders | leader1_name = [[Tino Chrupalla]]<br/ >[[Alice Weidel]] | leader4_title = Parliamentary leadership | leader4_name = [[Tino Chrupalla]]<br/ >[[Alice Weidel]] | leader5_title = | leader5_name = | founded = 2013 | website = {{URL|afd.de}} | country = [[Germany]] | ideology = {{Nowrap|[[German nationalism]]<br>[[Euroscepticism]]<br>[[Right-wing populism]]<br>[[National conservatism]]<br>[[Islamophobia|Anti-Islam]]<br>[[Opposition to immigration|Anti-immigration]]<br>[[Antifeminism]]}} | position = {{Nowrap|[[Far-right]]}} }} [[File:Konrad Adam, Frauke Petry und Bernd Lucke 2013.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Konrad Adam (left), Frauke Petry (center) and Bernd Lucke (right) in 2013.]] [[File:Btw17afd.svg|thumb|right|200px|Results from the 2017 election. Darker areas indicate stronger support.]] '''Alternative for Germany''' (German: ''Alternative für Deutschland'', shortened ''AfD'') is a [[German nationalism|German nationalist]] and [[Conservatism|conservative]] [[Far-right politics|far-right]] political party. In the [[German federal election, 2017|2017 federal election]], the party won 94 seats after receiving 12.6% of the national vote.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/world/europe/germany-election-afd.html |title=Alternative for Germany: Who Are They, and What Do They Want? |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=25 September 2017 |access-date=10 November 2017}}</ref> == History == In 2012, [[Alexander Gauland]], [[Bernd Lucke]] and [[Konrad Adam]] formed the ''Electoral Alternative 2013''. It was critical of Germany's policy toward the [[eurozone]] crisis. Some candidates who were part of the ''Electoral Alternative 2013'' ran for election in [[Lower Saxony]] in alliance with the [[Free Voters]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Frymark |first=Kamil |title=German Euro-sceptics to est