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Photograph: Karina Hessland/ReutersFar-right leaders in Spain and Portugal also hailed the AfD\u2019s win. Santiago Abascal, of the Spanish Vox party, called it a \u201cspectacular result that represents great hope for Germany and Europe\u201d, while Andr\u00e9 Ventura, of the Chega party in Portugal, praised a \u201chistoric victory\u201d.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotionItaly\u2019s far-right deputy prime minister, Matteo Salvini, also congratulated the AfD\u2019s co-leader Alice Weidel on X, describing the party\u2019s victory as a \u201cresounding success that highlights the strong demand for change, security, and jobs\u201d.Salvini, who serves in Giorgia Meloni\u2019s radical rightwing coalition alongside Tajani, taunted \u201cthose on the left who stoked fears and catastrophic scenarios\u201d, adding: \u201cFear? Terror? Danger? No, it\u2019s called DEMOCRACY. 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France\u2019s National Rally (RN), which two years ago expelled the AfD from its European parliamentary group, has made clear that it finds the German party\u2019s rhetoric and policies too extreme.The two parties\u2019 rift followed comments by a leading AfD figure, Maximilian Krah, downplaying the crimes of the Nazi SS by suggesting they were \u201cnot all criminals\u201d \u2013 and revelations that the AfD backed mass deportations of immigrants.The RN\u2019s president, Jordan Bardella, confirmed on Saturday that his party, whose figurehead, Marine Le Pen, is comfortably ahead in the polls in the run-up to next year\u2019s French presidential elections, had no plans to resume an alliance with the AfD.While keeping his distance from the party, however, Bardella noted that \u201celectoral pressure exerted by the AfD in Germany\u201d was contributing to policy shifts within the German government, pointing to Berlin\u2019s re-establishment of border controls.AfD won 43.8% of the vote, more than double its showing five years ago in the region of 2.1 million people west of Berlin. 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