ISENBURG, Germany (Reuters) - "Alice fuer Deutschland" (Alice for Germany) chanted supporters as far-right leader Alice Weidel addressed an election rally outside Germany's financial centre Frankfurt,
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Conservatives win German election while far-right party surges to second place
Provisional results confirm that mainstream conservatives led by Friedrich Merz won Germany’s national election, while a far-right party surged to become the nation’s second-largest
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German conservatives win election but far-right AfD surges, exit polls show
From left, activists wearing masks of German far-right chancellor candidate Alice Weidel, Elon Musk, President Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Vice President JD Vance protest the U.S. and Russia’s support for the German far-right AfD party at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
An election poster showing AfD top candidate for chancellor Alice Weidel is fixed on a lamp pole in Frankfurt, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)
One in five voters in the German election favored the far right. The AfD leader’s dramatic rise terrifies many of the others.
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Who is Alice Weidel? All the facts about Germany’s far-right AfD leader and her girlfriendGermany’s federal elections took place this weekend, with the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party the Christian Social Union (CSU) winning overall and set to form a coalition government.
Germany’s political system is set up to exclude extremists. Yet the country is waking up to a new political reality that has lurched to the right with the once outcast Alternative for Germany (AfD) party now firmly established in German politics.
The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.
German far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel pledges to overtake conservative bloc, vows to win first place in next election.
The leading candidate, Friedrich Merz, a conservative who has adopted many of the AfD’s hard-line positions on immigration, used his closing statement of the debate to promise his voters that he would never allow the AfD into his government. Under him, he said, the firewall would hold.
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Alice Weidel, unlikely queen of German far-right AfDBERLIN: 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 AfD into Sunday's (Feb 23) elections,
The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar result.
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