With just two weeks until the German general election, the UK politician and the chief architect of the Brexit campaign, Nigel Farage, appeared at a campaign event of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Berlin today.

Farage did not formally endorse the AfD, citing “different political affiliations,” but supported the party’s senior leader Beatrix von Storch, chief of the AfD Berlin State unit.

Farage said that with the AfD’s entry in the German parliament “the most powerful country in the EU is about to get an opposition.” He was pointing to the fact that all the other parties in Germany agreed on most of the major issues such as open borders for illegal migrants and EU’s eroding of national sovereignty of individual member states.

UK-based news website Westermonster reported Farage’s appearance at the Spandau Citadel in Berlin:

Brexit Leader Nigel Farage today described how “the most powerful country in the EU about to get an opposition,” as he shared a platform in Germany with AFD (Alternative for Germany) MEP Beatrix Von Storch ahead of the German elections.

Although not formally backing the AFD party, due to “different political affiliations”, he said he was happy to appear personally to support Beatrix Von Storch, whom he described as a woman of great integrity.

Farage said the main purpose of his visit was that because during the debate between Merkel and Schultz “nobody spoke about the implications for Brexit on Germany”. (…)

Farage laughed off suggestions from a reporter that he’s wasting his time in a Europhile country, saying that he’s always suspicious when people make such declarations, because across the EU countries consistently vote against further EU integration.

“Once people begin hearing alternative arguments, opinions begin to change,” he said.

Almost five years after the party’s creation, the AfD is expected to enter the German parliament for the first time. In a short span of time, the right-wing party has managed to enter in 13 of the country’s 16 state parliaments.

Farage saw the party’s entry in the German Bundestag as a great opportunity to challenge the establishment agenda at the national level. “Once you have the opportunity, once you have the space to challenge the establishment, to challenge the status quo, you have the opportunity to make the country think and that is an opportunity but also a responsibility,” Farage told AfD supporters in Berlin.

Farage’s appearance at a high-profile AfD event, just two weeks ahead of the election, is a big shot in the arm for the anti-EU and anti-mass immigration party. According to the latest poll results, the AfD is set to emerge as the third-largest party in the German parliament on the September 24 vote.