Germany's anti-migrant AfD eyes gains even in hip Berlin German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces the threat of fresh gains by the right-wing populist AfD party in Berlin state elections Sunday, amid rising public discontent over her welcome to refugees. Although Germany's multicultural hipster capital looks bound to re-elect the centre-left Social Democrats as the top party, the AfD is polling at around 14 percent with support strongest in the poorer tower-bloc districts of the city's former communist east. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES of Berliners.