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alice weidel leading in german chancellor polls

Alice Weidel is now the most popular candidate for German Chancellor, according to the latest polls. A look at the latest political landscape in Germany after the Christmas market attack. Donald Trump ...
Wall Street Journal

The German ‘Firewall’: No Eye Contact With the AfD

Free Expression: Alternative for Germany more than doubled its 2021 vote share to 20% in the 2025 election, but the winning Christian Democratic Union, which sees the AfD as a pariah, has said it ...
The American Conservative

CPAC Budapest Brings Alice Weidel Up on the Stage

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... The decision to invite German politician Alice Weidel to speak at the recent CPAC gathering in Hungary was an important step on the road to ...
City Journal

After Germany’s Elections, the AfD Could Still Have the Last Laugh

Alice Weidel may get the last laugh yet. The co-leader of Germany’s most popular party, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), was visibly amused on Tuesday morning when Friedrich Merz, the head of the ...
NBC News

Alice Weidel doesn’t fit the profile of a far-right politician. The German AfD is willing to look past it.

MUNICH — She has two children with a Sri Lankan-born woman, speaks Chinese and previously worked at global financial institutions — an unconventional profile for the leader of a male-dominated ...
The American Conservative

Berlin’s Anti-AfD ‘Firewall’ Will Collapse

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... European conservatives reclaimed lost ground Sunday in Germany’s elections. Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats (CDU) and Alice Weidel’s ...
The New York Times

Musk Calls to Congratulate Leader of German Hard-Right Party

The leader of the party said she received the call after the party known as the AfD finished second in national elections, by far the best showing in its history. By Christopher F. Schuetze Reporting ...
Time

Exclusive: Alice Weidel on Her Far-Right AfD Party’s Rise, Elon Musk’s Support, and the German Election

The tweet from Elon Musk arrived a few days before Christmas, and it felt like a gift from heaven to Germany’s far-right political party, Alternative for Germany (AfD). It consisted of six words: ...
Reuters

German far-right leader is a Chinese-speaking economist with foreign partner

Alice Weidel is far-right AfD's first chancellor candidate Partnered with Sri Lankan woman, she is unlikely AfD public face Seen leading AfD to historic result in Sunday's election Believes AfD has ...
AOL

Hundreds protest at Swiss home of German far-right leader

EINSIEDELN, Switzerland (Reuters) - Around 250 people protested on Saturday against the leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the Swiss town where she has a home, sparking ...
Newsweek

Germany’s Musk-Endorsed AfD Calls for ‘Good Relations’ With Russia

A co-chair of Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which Elon Musk previously endorsed, recently called for the restoration of "good relations" with Russia. Alice Weidel condemned Berlin's ...
The Washington Post

What’s behind Vance’s stunning decision to embrace Germany’s AfD?

PARIS — What part of “neo-Nazi” does JD Vance not understand? That’s one question that arises from his decision to meet with the head of a German political party so extreme, and with such a long and ...