(At the election for the Hamburg Parliament (“Bürgerschaft”), the AfD barely made it in with 5.3 %, 0.8 percentage point less then in the last election and far below their expectations. Here is what AfD frontrunner Dirk Nockemann’s response in an interview.)

Actually, “barely in” is actually a big sucess in this case because we saw ourselves exposed to the campaigns of the entire political establishment of this city Hamburg, in previous polls, we were always placed at seven to eight percent and in the last days, there was most unsavoury rhetorical hyperbole on part of the other parties against the AfD, basically, we have been portrayed as close to an insane terrorist who we supposedly had given ammunition to with our formulations, really, I have never seeen something so incoherent, something so twisted and vile against us in any election race, not even in the eastern states, and we cannot exclude the possibility that that pushed us down one or two percent, although now, after the elections, we shoul please all turn down the rhetorics a bit, and that also applies to the position statements of the Greens, the SPD [Social Democratic Party of Germany] against the AfD in Hamburg.