The AfD peaked at around 22 per cent in polls in January; before voting started, it fell back to 16 per cent, still in second place after the leading centre-right Christian Democrats. “People have begun to realise that the so-called alternative is not really an alternative. They begin to ask themselves, what would happen if the AfD came into power? They realise that they don’t have the people they would need to make things really change. They must be aware that [because of Le Pen’s boycott] the AfD MEPs won’t play any role in the [European] parliament,” Meuthen says. Meuthen...