U.S. President Donald Trump interpreted the AfD's 43.8 percent result in the Saxony-Anhalt state election as a sign of opposition to Germany's migration policies and praised the party.
In a post on Truth Social on Tuesday, Trump described the AfD as a "populist party." Trump argued that opposition to Germany's migration rules had boosted the AfD, saying, "They will no longer put up with this."

AfD records a state-election high
AfD won 43.8 percent of the vote in Sunday's Saxony-Anhalt state election, achieving its highest vote share ever in a German state election.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union received 17.2 percent in the same election.

The party's status is under debate
Germany's domestic intelligence agency classifies the AfD's state organization as a confirmed far-right organization. The agency says that some factions of the party advocate a racist, ethnically based concept of national identity that is incompatible with Germany's democratic constitutional order.
Germany's mainstream parties base their position of not forming governments with the AfD on this assessment.