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

The official platform of the AfD defines a family as a “father, mother and children.” ­Weidel’s does not fit that mold. Her partner is a woman, the Sri Lankan-born filmmaker Sarah Bossard ...

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a male-dominated, anti-immigration party that depicts itself as a defender of ...

Ms. Weidel grew up in a middle-class Catholic family in Harsewinkel, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, in the country’s west, with two siblings and a dachshund. Her father was a salesman and her ...

That is the point when Weidel will have arrived as Germany’s most uncomfortable and unavoidable politician. She was born in 1979 into a middle-class family in the Westphalian town of Gütersloh.

2024 [Ralf Hirschberger/AFP] Weidel, who grew up in a middle-class family in a town in northwest Germany, came to politics after a career in finance. She studied economics as an undergraduate ...

Shunned by liberal Germans, anti-immigration AfD is now the second strongest party in Germany. It's also favored by President ...

The leader of the party said she received the call after the party known as the AfD finished second in national elections, by ...

BERLIN – When US Vice-President J.D. Vance criticised his German hosts on Feb 14 for sidelining far-right parties, he did not mention by name the Alternative for Germany, known as the AfD.