Alternative for Germany - Wikipedia
The party presented itself as an economically liberal,[25] Eurosceptic, and conservative movement in its early years.[26][27][28] AfD subsequently moved further to the right,[29] and expanded its policies under successive leaderships to include opposition to immigration,[30][31] Islam,[32] and the European Union.[33]
It has a policy focus on opposing Islam,[42][43][44] opposing immigration into Germany,[45] especially Muslim immigration into Germany,[46] welfare chauvinism,[37] Euroscepticism,[47][48] denial of human-caused global warming,[49][50] and supporting closer relations with Russia.[51]
When party founder Bernd Lucke had left AfD in 2015, he cited, among other reasons, an "anti-western, decidedly pro-Russian foreign and security policy orientation" as well as increasing calls to "pose the 'system question' with regard to our parliamentary democracy" as reasons for his departure from the party.[61] At that time, AfD was performing poorly in opinion polls, polling at around 3%, and was suffering infighting; however, an influx of refugees and migrants boosted their support later in 2015, with the party turning from matters related to the eurozone to focus on opposing migration, in particular Muslims and Muslim immigration.