AfD

Germany’s Far-Right Celebrates “Historic” Gains In National Elections

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Berlin: Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) celebrated a record election result Sunday that fuelled its wildest hopes of one-day entering government, a horror scenario for its many foes. The anti-immigration party scored 19.5-20 per cent of the vote according to exit polls, making it the second strongest party after the conservative CDU/CSU alliance of … Read more

Meet Alice Weidel, An Openly Gay Politician Who Is The Unlikely Queen Of German Far-Right

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Berlin: As an openly gay politician who lives with her Sri Lanka-born partner in Switzerland, Alice Weidel was an unusual choice to many to lead Germany’s far-right and anti-immigration AfD into Sunday’s elections. To her legions of political foes, Weidel serves as a “fig leaf” for a party that rails against asylum seekers, Islam, and … Read more