Germany’s federal elections took place this weekend, with the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) winning overall and set to form a coalition government.

One in five voters in the German election favored the far right. The AfD leader’s dramatic rise terrifies many of the others.

As Germany heads to the polls, a look at the politician cultivating the anti-immigrant party’s ‘image of competence’.