Far right can double vote in the elections on Sunday in Berlin

Ain addition, it is important to note that, in order to improve the quality of training, training and training, it is necessary to take into account the importance of the development of training and training.

In the last regional elections held in 2023, the party obtained 9.1% of the votes.

AfD’s candidate for mayor, Kristin Brinker, a 56-year-old architect, has sought to extend the party’s electorate, including among citizens of foreign origin, while recognizing that some training leaders sometimes express themselves in a “rude” way.

Brinker said on Thursday, during a meeting with the foreign press, that migrants of second and third generation well integrated and that “they are not a burden” to the State face “with great concern the arrival of people who do not belong, but who receive everything from the State”.

The candidate wishes to freeze the reception of refugees and examine the situation of some 20,000 migrants who, in their view, reside irregularly in Berlin, with the aim of expelling as many as possible.

The proposals are less radical than the calls for “remigration” defended by other sectors of AfD.

Brinker also said he received support from many homosexuals “who do not identify themselves as ‘queer’” and who would be concerned about security, another central theme of his campaign, after the attack this summer by a ‘jihadist’ against the Berlin Pride Parade.

On housing, one of the main themes of the election campaign due to the shortage of supply in the capital, the candidate proposes a scoring system that gives priority, among other criteria, to people working longer in Berlin, “regardless of passport”.

Brinker has also stated that public housing companies build new homes only for refugees, an allegation made without proof, and raised suspicions about a possible irregular favoring of foreigners in the assignment of real estate.

Among the other proposals are the strengthening of video surveillance, the removal of rainbow flags from public buildings, the promotion of the so-called “high culture” to increase Berlin’s tourist attraction and the improvement of German education in schools where about half of children are foreign.

Several analysts attribute the possible growth of AfD above all to dissatisfaction with the coalition between the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), which governs both Berlin and the country.

The low popularity of Christian Democrat Chancellor Friedrich Merz added criticism to the mayor of Berlin, Kai Wegner, for the management of the great blackout at the beginning of the year.

Wegner was eventually replaced as a candidate by the little-known Stefan Evers.

The growth of the AfD also reflects the political and social divisions between the centre and the outskirts of Berlin and between the areas belonging to the former Federal Republic of Germany (RFA) and the German Democratic Republic (DRA) before reunification.

In the federal elections of 2025, The Left and the Greens dominated most of the central districts, while on the periphery remained a division close to the old border between the two parts of the city: the CDU prevailed in the west and the AfD in the east.