It’s a huge kindergarten here,’ says the party’s Alice Weidel, to whom the chancellor won’t speak.

AfD national leader Alice Weidel can often seem like a counterpoint to Höcke. Weidel, who is the AfD candidate for chancellor in Germany's upcoming national elections, lives in a lesbian ...

Alice Weidel of the nationalist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany lives in Switzerland and is married to a Sri Lankan-born woman. She had led her party to second place before Sunday’s ...

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 ...

Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the heart of power. German politician Alice Weidel. Gene Glover / Agentur Focus ...

Alice Weidel, the leader of Germany's Alternative fur Deutschland party in Berlin on Feb. 18, 2025. Photograph by Maxim Babenko for TIME. 16 minute read. February 22, 2025 1:00 AM EST.

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 could not have hoped for a better backdrop to her coronation as the candidate for chancellor of the far-right Alternative for Germany.

Alice Weidel, co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany party, prepares for a discussion with Elon Musk in Berlin on Thursday. (Kay Nietfeld/AFP/Getty Images) ...

Alice Weidel, right, federal spokesperson of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party attends the presentation of her candidacy for Chancellor in the 2025 federal elections in Berlin, Germany ...

Alice Weidel, parliamentary group leader, party chairwoman and candidate for chancellor of the AfD, prepares for a live X interview with U.S. billionaire Elon Musk in her office in the Jakob ...