The delegates of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) have unanimously chosen this Saturday the co-president of the formation, Alice Weidel, as a candidate for the country’s Chancellery. in next month’s legislative elections.
The almost 600 delegates They approved the figure of Weidel during the congress that the AfD is holding this weekend, amid strong security measures and protests against the formation, in the city of Riesa, in its bastion state of Saxony.
The co-president of AfD, Tino Chrupalla, opened the congress by recalling the good results that the party is obtaining in the polls, which give the party 20 percent of voting intentions. “We have to leave that percentage behind and continue growing,” he said before presenting “the future chancellor.”
Moments later, Weidel was hailed without any vote as the party’s candidate after the delegates rose from their seats at the same time to dedicate strong applause to the party’s co-president.
“We congratulate our new candidate for chancellor Alice Weidel and look forward to the election campaign,” the party announced on its official account of the social network X, whose owner, Elon Musk has publicly supported the training and even starred in an interview with the now candidate.
Weidel, 45, dedicated much of his speech to anticipate his measures for his first 100 days in power — despite the fact that the conservative alliance, which leads the polls, has promised that it will not negotiate with the extreme right — among them “the demolition of the wind turbines, those windmills of shame” to dedicate all its efforts to the resurgence of the nuclear energy, collect .
