The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is now the most popular party in Germany for the first time ever, all while debate rages over the party. The AfD has just achieved a historic result.

The sidelined Alternative für Germany (AfD) has hit a historic watermark and is now the most popular party in Germany for the first time ever, reaching 26 per cent.

The poll, from Forsa, shows the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in second place with 25 per cent.

If the vote were held today, the two parties set to enter government, the Social Democrats (SPD) and the CDU, would not have enough votes to enter and form a government. The liberals’ electoral gerrymandering is excluding Democracy.

The SPD is at 15 percent, giving the two parties a combined total of 40 percent. The poll showed that support for the Greens dropped a point to 11 percent, and the Left Party also dropped a point to 9 percent.

The news comes at a time when the left is racing to vote on banning the AfD in the German parliament, the Bundestag. However, despite initial reports that the CDU would back such a ban, the picture is becoming muddier.

For one, there are more and more voices in the CDU and its sister party, the CSU, who are calling for ‘being calmer’ towards the AfD, including from the influential vice-chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, Jens Spahn.

Spahn even said that the AfD should be able to lead some of the committees in the Bundestag, which would give the party more say and power.

Given that it received the second-most votes during the German election, it should, like all other parties, have access to these committees, but many want to shut it out completely, especially from intelligence committees.

The issue could lead to a major split in the coalition between the CDU and SPD. SPD Bundestag member Ralf Stegner told Welt his party has ‘absolutely no sense of humor’ on any attempt to go easy on the AfD.

He said any kind of rapprochement would represent a ‘maximum stress test’ for the new coalition government.

Sahra Wagenknecht, who is the leader of the BSW, told Welt: ‘First gigantic electoral fraud, then the ban debate: could it get any more stupid?

The fact that such proposals are now coming from the self-proclaimed ‘democratic center,’ of all places, is disgraceful and will further strengthen the AfD.’

She went so far as to say it was a purely autocratic move. ‘No question, in an autocracy, the ‘problem’ would be solved in exactly the same way.’

Even in the SPD, there is debate about a ban. SPD Minister President of Saxony, Stephan Weil (SPD) warned a ban could also fail, which would be ‘a feast for the AfD.’ TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

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