At the far-right party congress, the candidate once again defended the closure of borders, large-scale deportations and the end of programs to combat climate change
The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party Alice Weidel was this Saturday formally elected as that party’s candidate for February’s legislative elections in Germany.
Delegates at the AfD congress, taking place in Riesa (in eastern Germany), unanimously elected Alice Weidel as the far-right party’s candidate for the legislative elections, which will take place on February 23.
The start of the congress was delayed after thousands of protesters gathered near the venue.
The protests began at dawn and a road was temporarily closed.
In her speech, the far-right candidate once again defended the closure of borders, large-scale deportations and the elimination of programs to combat climate change, among other measures.
Polls show the Alternative for Germany (AfD) with around 22% of the vote, behind the conservatives of the CDU/CSU (33%) under Friedrich Merz, but ahead of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD), currently in power and whom polls indicate between 15.5 and 17% of the votes.
Alice Weidel has no chance of coming to power as long as the other parties continue to exclude any alliance with the extreme right.
Doctor in economics and former Goldman Sachs employee, Alice Weidel, 45, joined the AfD when the party was founded in 2013.
Unlike many of the AfD’s founding academics who later left the party, frightened by its xenophobic turn, Weidel chose to remain, achieving the position of leader of the political movement.
