Who is Alice Weidel, Afd’s lesbian leader who aims for a role in the Merz government

Born in 1979 in Guerersloh, it is the first true Cancellar of the AFD in his twelve years of history: in the last federal elections, in 2021, Weidel and Tino Chrupalla had been chosen as a peak couple ‘expressed by the party in view of the vote . Nicknamed ‘Lille’, Weidel grew up with two brothers in Harsewinkel, in the western German state of the NorthRene Westphalia, in a family of entrepreneurs.

After graduating and economics studies, she worked at the Goldman Sachs investment bank, spent several years in China and achieved his doctorate with a thesis on the Chinese pension system. He joined the FD in 2013the year of the foundation of a party that initially wanted to be mainly Eurosceptic, frustrated by the policy of the euro area. Once on positions other than those of the AFD leader in Turingia, Bjoern Hoecke, who wanted out of the party, Weidel has long been reconciled with the extreme right of the movement.

She benefited, in the election campaign, of Elon Musk’s declared support with his X platform. The co-president of the AFD It is divided between Germany and Switzerland, where the two children grow up with his wife.