section_path: History/Chrupalla and Weidel (2022–present)/2024
section_name: 2024
paragraph_text: 2024
  
  On 9 June 2024 AfD won 16% of the vote in the European Parliament elections, second only to the CDU/CSU and almost five percentage points more than in the 2019 election. AfD prevailed in all five former East German states.
  
  One of the party's leaders, Tino Chrupalla, hailed the results as "historic". In an attempt to rejoin the ID group, the AfD replaced its controversial candidate Maximilian Krah with René Aust as head of the AfD delegation in the European Parliament. However, AfD failed to join ID, or now named Patriots for Europe. Instead, AfD formed the new ESN group which was composed predominantly of AfD members, as well as some other ethnonationalist parties across Europe.