An Alternative for Germany politician put forward an inquiry about the most common names of people who receive state-funded ...

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

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 ...

But in recent elections, Alice Weidel took the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party from the fringes to the heart of power. Championed by Elon Musk and Vice President JD Vance, Weidel is part of a ...

O ne of Europe's most polarizing figures is Alice Weidel, the leader of the Alternative for Germany, known as the AfD.The far ...

Alice Weidel, co-leader of Alternative for Germany, at a campaign event at party headquarters in Heidenheim, Germany, on Feb. 9. (Angelika Warmuth/Reuters) ...

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

With Germany's election in six weeks, Elon Musk was full of praise for his livestream guest on X: Alice Weidel, the far-right Alternative for Germany party's candidate for chancellor.

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 ...