Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) celebrates a record election result that fuels its wildest hopes of one day entering government, a horror scenario for its many foes. "We are ready to participate in government. Our hand is always extended to implement the will of the people," says the party's top candidate Alice Weidel in Berlin as the anti-immigration party scored 19.5-20 percent of the vote according to exit polls, making it the second strongest party after the conservative CDU/CSU alliance of winner Friedrich Merz. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES