AfD top candidate Berndt against “party state”. In a survey a few days ago, the AfD achieved 25 percent approval in Brandenburg, putting it in first place ahead of the SPD and CDU.

However, there are no coalition partners in sight for the party. The current AfD parliamentary group leader wants to lead the party into government in Brandenberg. One goal: liquidating the state Office for the Protection of the Constitution, which lists AfD as a suspected right-wing extremist case.