Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

It consisted of six words: “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The party’s leader, Alice Weidel, assumed it must be a hoax. Refreshing her feed, she stared at the message and checked its source ...

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

On January 29, MPs from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) clustered around 46-year-old party leader Alice Weidel in parliament taking selfies. Weidel, dressed in a white rollneck and ...

We've broken down everything you need to know about the populist group and its frontwoman, Alice Weidel. What is the AfD? The Alternative for Germany party was created in 2013, initially as an ...

Germany’s Bundestag, or Lower House of Parliament, passed a historic bill allowing it to sidestep its strict rules on debt to ...

“With Alice Weidel at the helm, the AfD has steadily become more radical,” said Ms Ann-Katrin Muller, an expert on the AfD who reports for Der Spiegel, one of Germany’s most prominent news ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has charged that Friedrich Merz, the country's likely next chancellor, has ...

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 ...

It consisted of six words: “Only the AfD can save Germany.” The party’s leader, Alice Weidel, assumed it must be a hoax. Refreshing her feed, she stared at the message and checked its source ...

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Alice Weidel, a gay woman with a Sri Lankan partner, leads Germany's far-right AfD, which opposes same-sex marriage and champions traditional values. Her leadership has bolstered the AfD's support.