One in five voters in the German election favored the far right. The AfD leader’s dramatic rise terrifies many of the others.

The half-naked protester was filmed defacing remnants of the Berlin Wall kept outside the German embassy in Ukraine capital Kyiv on Sunday with a Hitler mustache and swept-over cropped dark hair

Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany (AfD) party now firmly established in German politics.

Germany’s federal elections took place this weekend, with the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) winning overall and set to form a coalition government.

BERLIN: As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to many to lead Germany's far-right AfD into Sunday's (Feb 23) elections,

German far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel pledges to overtake conservative bloc, vows to win first place in next election.

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.