BERLIN — For the 13 years since its founding, the nationalist Different for Germany (AfD) social gathering — labeled “right-wing extremist” by the nation’s home intelligence company and accused by others of xenophobia, antisemitism and Islamophobia — has stood in opposition. Opposition to the European Union. Opposition to immigration. And, as the biggest social gathering outdoors the governing coalition after final yr’s federal elections, opposition to Chancellor Friedrich Merz.
