Alternative for Germany

Alternative for Germany (German: Alternative für Deutschland, AfD) is a richt-weeng populist^[17][18][19] an Eurosceptic^{[20][21][22][23]} poleetical pairty in Germany.

Alternative for Germany Alternative für Deutschland
Abbreviation	AfD
Chairperson	Jörg Meuthen
Vice Chairperson	Alexander Gauland Alice Weidel
Foondit	6 Februar 2013
Heidquarters	Schillstraße 9 10785 Berlin
Youth weeng	Young Alternative for Germany
Membership  (2017)	26,000[1]
Ideology	German naitionalism[2][3][4] Richt-weeng populism[5] Euroscepticism[6] Naitional conservatism[6][7] Economic leeberalism[8]
Poleetical poseetion	Richt-weeng[9][10][11][12][13] tae Faur-richt[14][15][16]
European affiliation	None
European Pairlament group	EFDD, ENF
Colours	Licht blue
Bundestag	81 / 736
State Pairlaments	228 / 1,866
European Pairlament	9 / 96
Website
www.alternativefuer.de

References

1. "AfD will mit nationalistischer und sozialer Politik punkten". AfD. 9 Mairch 2017.
2. Taub, Amanda; Fisher, Max (18 Januar 2017). "Germany's Extreme Right Challenges Guilt Over Nazi Past". The New York Times.
3. "Understanding the 'Alternative for Germany': Origins, Aims and Consequences" (PDF). University of Denver. 16 November 2016. Retrieved 29 Apryle 2017.
4. Beyer, Susanne; Fleischhauer, Jan (30 Mairch 2016). "AfD Head Frauke Petry: 'The Immigration of Muslims Will Change Our Culture'". Der Spiegel.
5. "Germany's populist AfD: from anti-euro to anti-migrant". France 24. Archived frae the original on 14 Mairch 2016. Retrieved 13 Mairch 2016.
6. "Parties and Election in Europe". 2014.
7. Simon Franzmann (2015). "The Failed Struggle for Office Instead of Votes". In Gabriele D'Ottavio; Thomas Saalfeld (eds.). Germany After the 2013 Elections: Breaking the Mould of Post-Unification Politics?. Ashgate. pp. 166–167. ISBN 978-1-4724-4439-4.
8. Lees, Charles (2015). "The AfD: what kind of alternative for Germany?" (PDF). Political Studies Association: 10–11. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
9. Germany's right-wing AfD party surges to new high amid concern over refugees.
   'Germany’s eurosceptic right-wing party has hit a new all-time high in the opinion polls as concern about migration rises in the country'.
   Independent. Author – Jon Stone. Published 13 January 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
10. Right-wing German party Alternative for Germany adopts anti-Islam policy.
    'The right-wing Alternative for Germany party declared that "Islam does not belong in Germany" as it passed its new party manifesto on Sunday'.
    Author – Anne-Beatrice Clasmann.
    The Sydney Morning Herald. Published 2 May 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
11. Germany AfD conference: party adopts anti-Islam policy.
    'The German right-wing party Alternative fuer Deutschland (AfD) has adopted an explicitly anti-Islam policy'.
    BBC News. Published 1 May 2016. Retrieved 7 June 2016.
12. New poll shows Alternative for Germany gaining support.
    'The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) has garnered some of its best numbers yet in a nationwide poll'.
    Deutsche Welle. Author – Brandon Conradis. Published 23 September 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
13. Germany's Right-Wing Challenge.
    'All of that is now changing fast, thanks mostly to the rise of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which is capitalizing on widespread discontent with Merkel’s refugee policy'.
    Foreign Affairs. Author – Thorsten Benner.
    Published 26 September 2016.
    Retrieved 26 December 2016.
14. Meaney, Thomas (3 October 2016). "The New Star of Germany's Far Right". The New Yorker. For decades, the German far right has been a limited force, with easily recognizable supporters—nicotine-stained ex-Nazis in the sixties and seventies, leather-clad skinheads in the eighties and nineties. Petry is something different, a disarmingly wholesome figure—a former businesswoman with a Ph.D. in chemistry and four children from her marriage to a Lutheran pastor.
15. Schultheis, Emily (8 December 2016). "Will anti-immigration party's rise pull Germany to the right?". Following the election of Donald Trump in the United States and the rise of populist movements across Europe, the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party has seized on fears about the influx of refugees to gain momentum here.
16. Delcker, Janosch (27 Apryle 2016). "Angry 8: Inside Germany's far-right AfD". Politico. The far-right Alternative for Germany has turned German politics on its head, but leadership squabbles threaten to derail the party’s rapid rise.
17. Frank Decker (2015). "Follow-up to the Grand Coalition: The Germany Party System before and after the 2013 Federal Election". In Eric Langenbacher (ed.). The Merkel Republic: An Appraisal. Berghahn Books. pp. 34–39. ISBN 978-1-78238-896-8.
18. Hans-Jürgen Bieling (2015). "Uneven development and 'European crisis constitutionalism', or the reasons for and conditions of a 'passive revolution in trouble'". In Johannes Jäger; Elisabeth Springler (eds.). Asymmetric Crisis in Europe and Possible Futures: Critical Political Economy and Post-Keynesian Perspectives. Routledge. p. 110. ISBN 978-1-317-65298-4.
19. Egbert Jahn (2015). German Domestic and Foreign Policy: Political Issues Under Debate -. Springer. p. 30. ISBN 978-3-662-47929-2.
20. Tom Lansford, ed. (2014). Political Handbook of the World 2014. SAGE Publications. p. 532. ISBN 978-1-4833-3327-4.
21. Kemal Dervis; Jacques Mistral (2014). "Overview". In Kemal Dervis; Jacques Mistral (eds.). Europe's Crisis, Europe's Future. Brookings Institution Press. p. 13. ISBN 978-0-8157-2554-1.
22. Robert Ladrech (2014). "Europeanization of National Politics: the centrality of politics parties". In José M. Magone (ed.). Routledge Handbook of European Politics. Routledge. p. 580. ISBN 978-1-317-62836-1.
23. William T. Daniel (2015). Career Behaviour and the European Parliament: All Roads Lead Through Brussels?. Oxford University Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-0-19-871640-2.