The move comes after Petry said she would not pursue the candidacy. Once again, Weidel had the backing of the party's far-right wing - and yet again, someone else lost out.

But Weidel has never made a serious attempt to hide the more incongruous aspects of her biography. When Weidel first joined the AfD, it was out of deep eurosceptic convictions.

04/27/2018 April 27, 2018. The rights of AfD's co-leader Alice Weidel were infringed upon by a vulgar Facebook comment at her expense, a Hamburg court has decided.

Alice Weidel (L), Chairwoman of the AfD parliamentary group, and Tino Chrupalla, Chairman of the AfD parliamentary group, comment in the German Bundestag on the ruling of the North Rhine ...

Alice Weidel of the nationalist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany lives in Switzerland and is married to a Sri Lankan-born woman. ... Ms. Weidel, 46, has become the unlikely face of the AfD.

Alice Weidel, the new co-leader of Germany’s far right political party, is a PhD economist, a lesbian, and a mother. To read her biography, you’d think she’d somehow accidentally joined the ...

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a male-dominated, anti-immigration party that depicts itself as a defender of ...

BERLIN — Alice Weidel has never been more popular — nor more radical. When the chancellor candidate for the far-right Alternative for Germany ... the party has found a vessel to do the same — to ...

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the heart of power. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our ...

Einmal im Jahr, an ihrem Geburtstag, setzt sich Alice Weidel mit ihrer Frau bei einem Glas Rotwein zusammen. Das Paar fragt sich: Ist es das alles wert? Der Hass, die anonymen Drohungen, die ...

U.S. tech billionaire Elon Musk livestreamed a chat with German far-right leader Alice Weidel on his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, on Thursday.. Why It Matters. Musk, the owner of X ...

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a male-dominated, anti-immigration party that depicts itself as a defender of ...