Germany facing Anti-AfD protests after election

After the Alternative for Germany's historic election result, opponents of the far-right populist party have taken to the streets of Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne in protest, Dw.com reports.


Around 700 demonstrators gathered on Berlin's Alexanderplatz on Sunday evening, bearing umbrellas to keep dry and waving anti-AfD signs to protest the far-right populist party's election result.

Just hours earlier, the Alternative for Germany's (AfD) earned an estimated 13 percent of votes in the German national election, ensuring that the young party would enter the Bundestag, Germany's lower house of parliament.

The crowd was continuing to grow outside the building where the AfD was celebrating their historic election result. Protestors chanted slogans such as, "Racism is not an alternative," "AfD is a bunch of racists" and "Nazis out!"

Later, the crowd shouted as one, "The whole of Berlin hates the AfD!" The party currently holds 23 out of 160 seats in the Berlin city parliament.