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Alternative for Germany
AfD · 2013– · Germany · Radical Right Populist · Electoral party · coding confidence medium
Contested codingEach axis runs from −10 to +10, with zero a genuine mixed or balanced position rather than an absence of opinion. A score describes a stated position and a governing record; it is not a judgement of merit. What each score means →
Core principles
Founded against euro bailouts, reoriented around immigration, national identity and rejection of climate policy.
Economic model
Low taxes, deregulation, opposition to the euro and to green industrial policy; some regional wings favour higher pensions.
Organisation of powers
Contests elections; parts of the party are under domestic-intelligence observation, and its authority coding is disputed.
Reading note
Coded with medium confidence because the party's regional wings differ sharply and its classification is the subject of active legal and academic dispute.
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EC · Economic organisation · scored +04
Coded +4: founded on euro policy, now mixed between market liberalism and eastern regional welfarism.
- Programme textProgramme commitments to abolish inheritance tax and to leave the euro sit alongside eastern demands for higher pensions.
CU · Social and cultural order · scored +09
Coded +9: national identity, Leitkultur and opposition to what the party calls gender ideology.
- Programme textProgramme rejects multiculturalism explicitly and opposes recognition of gender beyond the binary.
AU · Organisation of power · scored +05
Coded +5 with low confidence and a contested reading.
- Documented act or statuteThree state branches have been classified as confirmed right-wing extremist by domestic intelligence; the national party was reclassified in 2025 and the designation is under legal challenge.
- Documented act or statuteThe party contests every election, holds parliamentary seats and has never been banned, which holds this below the hybrid-authoritarian scores.
SC · Scale of decision · scored +03
Coded +3: national sovereignty against the EU, federalist within Germany.
- Programme textProgramme commitments to a German exit from the EU in its present form.
ID · Rule of membership · scored +08
Coded +8: remigration and descent-based conceptions of belonging.
- Documented act or statuteA 2023 meeting on deportation plans including naturalised citizens triggered mass counter-demonstrations in 2024.
CH · Method and tempo · scored 00
Coded at zero: parliamentary in method, with parts of the party under intelligence observation.
- Documented act or statuteHas contested every federal and state election since 2013 and holds seats in every state parliament.
Where it came from, and what came after
- succeededFreedom Party of Austria
The Austrian party is the longest-running template for the family.
Nearest organisations by measured distance
Straight-line separation across all six axes, out of a maximum of 49.0. Proximity means similarity of stated position, not endorsement and not resemblance in outcome.
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