Weidel led the Alternative for Germany, a male-dominated party accused of far-right extremism, from the fringes into the ...

The far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) looks set to become the second largest party in the German parliament following elections on February 23. Polls& ...

The success of the far-right AfD is a ‘final warning’ to democratic parties, the winner of Germany’s election warns ...

After coming second in Germany's recent election, the far-right AfD party now holds even more parliaments seats than before. Constitutional experts are worried.

Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...

at the final AfD campaign rally ahead of Thuringia state elections in August 2024 (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Alexander Gauland, an AfD co-founder and former leader, has claimed that Germans should ...

The AfD was founded in 2013 by disaffected CDU members. This included economics professors Bernd Lucke and Joachim Starbatty, ...

But AfD, some of whose members have been associated ... such an overt anti-minority stance — its co-leader, Alexander Gauland, has vowed, for example, to fight against “an invasion of ...

Weidel has helmed the AfD since 2017, when she became co-chair alongside Alexander Gauland. Seen as another member of the extremist white nationalist wing of the party, Gauland, who was born in ...

Germany’s far-right AfD party have surged to an historic second place in national elections, securing an unprecedented influence in the country’s post-war political landscape. The AfD doubled ...