Alice Weidel, a far-right profile that breaks the mold
The AfD leader maintains a discourse that contradicts her personal life but is allowing her to gain ground among a German electorate concerned about immigration
Alice Weidel, Alternative for Germany’s (AfD) candidate for German chancellor, is the antithesis of everything you might imagine a far-right leader to be. Her party advocates the traditional family of a man and a woman, but she is gay and is raising two adopted children with her partner. When she takes to the stage, she delivers a German nationalist discourse, calling for closed borders and an end to globalization, but she spends most — or almost all — of her time in another country. The AfD wants to deport thousands of foreigners en masse, but Weidel’s civil union partner, film producer Sarah Bossard, is originally from Sri Lanka.
