The far-right AfD’s second-place finish in European Parliament elections has underscored the party’s growing strength and claim on power, the Alternative for Germany’s co-leader said on Monday. Other German political parties have refused to form coalitions with the AfD or cooperate with the far-right populists in government bodies, effectively freezing the party out of power. “We were already popping the corks yesterday,” AfD co-chairwoman Alice Weidel told journalists in Berlin at the AfD’s election review. “People want us to take on government responsibility.” Weidel argued that the party’s …