Leader of Germany’s AFD party, Alice Weidel:

We are ahead of the CDU by nine percent. The CDU will continue to decline. We will continue to grow.

I predict—I believe this is my goal for the AfD—that we will reach 40 percent at the national level. And we will achieve this as quickly as possible, because more and more people are trusting us, because they want political change, and because they no longer want to be treated as fools.