But in recent elections, Alice Weidel took the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party from the fringes to the heart of power. Championed by Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance, Weidel is part of a ...

The Alternative for Germany came second in the February 23 election, the best performance by a far-right party since World ...

G ERMANY’S DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE AGENCY has classified part of the AfD, founded in 2013, as extremist, warning that it is a “danger to democracy.” (In 2017, the AfD became the first far-right party to ...

Germany's new parliament sits for the first time Tuesday, with a record number of MPs from the far-right AfD expected to lay claim to several senior positions in the chamber.

Alternative for Germany has hit an all-time high in polling amid a backlash to its conservative rivals’ promise to hugely ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to many to lead Germany's far-right and anti-immigration AfD into Sunday's ...

She started out in China on a German government scholarship and stayed to write a doctoral thesis on its pension system, ...

The real winners of the German election are the hard-right leader Alice Weidel and her White House friends, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. Whatever Friedrich Merz’s plans are, he must expect ...

Alice Weidel, co-leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), speaks during the election party at the party's headquarters in Berlin Germany, Sunday, Feb 23, 2025. (PHOTO: AP/Soeren Stache) ...

Alternative for Germany (AfD) co-leader Alice Weidel speaks following the election result which saw her party become the second-biggest in the Bundestag with 20.8% of the vote, according to the ...

although it has a slim chance of forming part of any new government because of a "firewall" to keep it out of office. But Alice Weidel, the party's co-leader and candidate for German chancellor in the ...