The German far-right unanimously elects Alice Weidel as its candidate for the Chancellery

The delegates of the far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) have unanimously chosen this Saturday the co-president of the party, Alice Weidel, as a candidate for the country’s Chancellery in next month’s legislative elections.

The almost 600 delegates approved the figure of Weidel during the congress that the AfD is holding this weekend, amid strong security measures and protests against the formation, in the city of Riesa, in its bastion state of Saxony.

The co-president of AfD, Tino Chrupalla, opened the congress by recalling the good results that the party is obtaining in the polls, which give the party 20 percent of voting intentions. “We have to leave that percentage behind and continue growing,” he said before presenting “the future chancellor.”

Moments later, Weidel was hailed without any vote as the party’s candidate after the delegates rose from their seats at the same time to give the party’s co-president a loud round of applause.

“We congratulate our new candidate for chancellor Alice Weidel and we look forward to the electoral campaign,” the party announced on its official account of the social network X, whose owner, Elon Musk, has publicly supported the party and even starred in an interview. with the now candidate.

Weidel, 45, dedicated a good part of his speech to anticipating his measures for his first 100 days in power — despite the fact that the conservative alliance, which leads the polls, has promised that it will not negotiate with the far right — among They “tear down the wind turbines, those mills of shame” to dedicate all their efforts to the resurgence of nuclear energy, he says.