Anti-gay far-right party will enter Germany’s parliament for the first time in more than 50 years

Germany’s far-right anti-gay party has won seats in the country’s Parliament for the first time in more than half a century.

Alternative für Deutschland, which is staunchly opposed to same-sex marriage and adoption, has become the third largest party in Germany just four years into its existence.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, who oversaw the legalisation of same-sex marriage earlier this year despite voting against it, will remain in office for a fourth term.

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Her Christian Democratic Union party won 217 seats, more than any other, though it was the party’s worst result since World War II.

The AfD picked up 13.3 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election, which will earn it 88 seats in the Bundestag.

AfD, which rose to popularity on the back of its extreme anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant views,
was led into the election by openly lesbian politician Alice Weidel.

The 38-year-old was leading the party when it announced it was planning a legal challenge to the first step towards the legislation of same-sex marriage earlier this year.

Weidel, who has two children with her same-sex partner, has always dismissed accusations of hypocrisy for backing an anti-same-sex adoption party.

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Same-sex adoption is also legal now, with same-sex couples enjoying all the rights connected to existing marriage laws.

Though she is gay, Ms Weidel is far from an LGBT activist, declaring that “political correctness belongs on the rubbish heap of history.”