The far-right AfD presents itself as a patriotic party, but revelations about possible monetary payments from Russia and a suspected Chinese spy have exposed its members as traitors to their country. DER SPIEGEL has learned that the Kremlin even drafted a "manifesto" for the party.
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The leader of Portugal’s centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD), Luis Montenegro, the 51-year-old advocate and president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), has claimed a razor-thin victory in the closely contested parliamentary elections that also saw the far-right surge.