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AfD is now projected to win 18 percent of the vote if elections were held tomorrow, after gaining two percent, according to a poll conducted by German political research organisation Infratest dimap.

The poll indicated the AfD would come in second behind German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union, which were projected to win 28 percent of the vote.

The AfD would nevertheless beat the centre-left SPD party, which stands on 17 percent of the vote after losing one percent.

The Greens and the liberal Free Democratic Party (FDP) both gained a percentage point, standing at 15 percent and nine percent respectively.