Erfurt20,000 protesters blockaded roads; AfD delegates reached the hall anyway.
Germany’s mainstream parties refuse to govern with the AfD even as polls put it 27-29%, ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives.
Weidel and Chrupalla seek re-election before a September 6 Saxony-Anhalt vote that could hand AfD its first governorship.
Sources: Deutsche Welle, ANSA.it, South China Morning Post, Al Jazeera Online, The Times of Israel