One in five voters in the German election favored the far right. The AfD leader’s dramatic rise terrifies many of the others.

Alice Weidel, a gay woman with a Sri Lankan partner, leads Germany's far-right AfD, which opposes same-sex marriage and ...

Alice Weidel, the chancellor candidate of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), is an unlikely public face for a ...

Learn more about Alice Weidel, who is currently leading the AfD Germany’s right-wing, nationalist party, but whose political ...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was also pleased to see the Alternative for Germany’s vote share growing.

AfD leader Alice Weidel accuses Germany's likely future chancellor Friedrich Merz of "election fraud." She says Merz promised to "close the borders" but did the opposite. Is that true?

Alice Weidel, the leader of German far-right party AfD, held secret meetings with Chinese envoy to Germany for years. It has ...

GERMANY’S hard-right party has had its strongest showing since World War Two, exit polls suggest, taking 19.5 per cent of the ...

The far-right had its strongest showing since World War II, while the center-left Social Democrats had their worst postwar ...

Terrorist attacks and job cuts have left Germans feeling bitter, and Alice Weidel is set to benefit in an election some say ...

In the final stretch of the campaign before Sunday's vote, the candidates are fighting for every last vote, with around 30% still undecided and 20% prepared to vote for the far-right AfD, which has ...

Germany's elections are taking place on Sunday, and it is the party set to finish second that is attracting much of the ...