Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alice Weidel Alternative for Germany (AfD) spokesperson and candidate for chancellor of her party, holds a bouquet of flowers next ...

Alice Weidel of the nationalist, anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany lives in Switzerland and is married to a Sri Lankan-born woman. She had led her party to second place before Sunday’s election.

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Ms Weidel’s charisma alone does not explain the AfD’s rise—indeed she is an uninspiring speaker. The 12-year-old party, like others on the hard right in Europe, has benefited from widespread anger ...

Alice Weidel likes to talk about Germany’s past — but she’s talked less about that of her own family. As co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Weidel has urged her country to move ...

Alice Weidel may not be the person you would imagine at the top of Germany's far-right political movement. She's gay with a Sri Lankan partner, the film-maker Sarah Bossard. And Ms Weidel, the ...

In Germany’s federal elections, held in February 2025, Alternative for Germany (AfD), a far-right organisation, received its highest number of votes ever, becoming the country’s second largest party.

MUNICH — She has two children with a Sri Lankan-born woman, speaks Chinese and previously worked at global financial institutions — an unconventional profile for the leader of a male-dominated ...

Alice Weidel, a leading election candidate for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), has launched legal action against a journalist, accusing the reporter of spreading false allegations about ...

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 and anti-immigration AfD into Sunday's ...

“Alice? Who the fuck is Alice?” wondered European audiences in 1995 when the Dutch band Gompie landed an unlikely success by adding this risque line to Smokie’s 1970s hit Living Next Door to Alice.