The AfD was founded in 2013 as an anti-euro party. It has changed its policy and  focused to immigration and Islam. It is the right-wing nationalist party which has MPs in nine of Germany's 16 state parliaments. Leaders of that party say that they want to win its first seats nationally in next year's federal elections. The biggest achievement of AfD was pushing Chancellor Angela Merkel's into third place in a regional election. AfD is critical of further European integration, the existence of the Eurozone, and the bailouts by the Eurozone for countries such as Greece.

Many analysts ask “Does the AfD's success really mean 'the end of Merkel'?”.

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Angela Merkel holds a national parliament seat in the northeast state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The AfD gained more than 20 percent of the vote, compared to 19 percent for the CDU, which lost two of its seats in the 71-seat parliament.

But this weren't the final elections yet. Unfortunately for Merkel, in recent polls, she reached her lowest approval rating in five years at 45 percent satisfaction. Let's remind that she is Chancellor since 2005. The report published by Bild am Sonntag said that just 44 percent of voters want Merkel to seek a fourth term as leader of the country.


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