Who is Alice Weidel, the unlikely leader of Germany’s far-right AfD party?
She’s been described as the politician of contradictions.
Alice Weidel is the leader of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party but is married to a Sri-Lankan born woman.A gay woman, she has two children with her partner, but is part of a political party which defines family as a father and mother raising children.
She’s a German nationalist who spends most of her time living in a small town in central Switzerland.
She has been described as the “respectable” and more moderate face of party that has been linked to neo-Nazis and plots to overthrow the German state.
While the AfD…
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