A key story of this German election campaign has of course been the rise of the far right, with large numbers of voters turning to the Alternative for Germany party, the AFD. In the latest polling, the AfD would take 21% of the overall vote this election. That would make them the second biggest party in the German parliament, the Bundestag. That's also double the party’s result from the last federal election in 2021, when they claimed just over 10 percent of the vote. According to a recent