Exclusive: Alice Weidel on Her Far-Right AfD Party’s Rise, Elon Musk’s Support, and the German Election
The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, used his closing statement of the debate to promise his voters that he would never allow the AfD into his government. Under him, he said, the firewall would hold.
The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has ...
The leader of the German far right is in a relationship with Sarah Bossard despite her party's advocacy of the traditional ...
Germany’s mainstream conservatives have won the country’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the country's second-largest party ...
Alternative for Germany (AfD) has surged to become the countrys second-largest political party, marking a dramatic rise in ...
Germany votes in a national election following the collapse of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition. Conservative leader ...
Outgoing German chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded the election and decried the historic gains of the far-right conservative ...
This important election has galvanised voters, and campaigning resumed on Saturday evening with a final discussion on ...
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