The far-right Alternative for Germany party has presented its candidate for chancellor in the country’s upcoming election
The far-right Alternative for Germany party on Saturday presented its candidate for chancellor in the country’s upcoming election.
In practice, Alice Weidel has no chance of taking the chancellery as other parties refuse to work with the populist party.
But Alternative for Germany, or AfD, which was founded in 2013, has been getting strong approval rates and is currently the second strongest party in the country after the center-right Christian Democrats. It is polling between 18% and 19% in nationwide surveys.
This is the first time that the AfD has nominated its own candidate for chancellor.
“We want to bring Germany forward again. We want to be at the top again worldwide“, Weidel said as she accepted the nomination.
