DIn the attack on the Aschaffenbourg knife on Wednesday January 22, Alice Weidel targets the conservative party. On X (ex-Twitter), she accuses the CDU (Christian Democrats) of having made, because of the opening policy of Angela Merkel, “these possible circumstances”. And when Friedrich Merz, his successor and favorite of polls, promises a flip-flop in migration policy, “daily evictions” and the “systematic refoulement” of borders, the chef of the alternative für Deutschland (AFD ) offers to vote a common law on Wednesday, January 29 at the Bundestag “so that there are no more deaths because of the health cord”, as she concludes her open letter addressed to her conservative counterpart.
The stick and carrot: it thus reaches a trap of its rival, opposing resolved to any alliance with the far -right party. In the emotion caused by this new attack, the fourth in seven months on German soil, the candidate puts coldly on the political gain to be garnered. This umpteenth attack on the knife nourishes its narrative in this campaign, that of murderous and uncontrolled immigration and the incompetence of parties in power to ensure their primary mission: the security of citizens.
“Remigration”, pillar of AFD
She is not for nothing nicknamed the “Ice Princess” or the “Iron Lady” for her admiration for her model, Margaret Thatcher. The Magdeburg Christmas market attack had catapulted immigration to the challenges of the German electoral campaign. Provisionally relegated to the background by the return of Donald Trump to the White House, the subject returns to a fertile land. According to a survey of the public channel Ard, 77 % of Germans respond in the affirmative to the question “Do we need a policy of asylum and fundamentally different refugees so that fewer people come to us? ». To this complex question, Alice Weidel answers with one word: “remigration”.
This granddaughter of a military judge from the 3rd Reich does not only succeed in the synthesis of a party, she personifies her contradictions
Popularized in France by Éric Zemmour, the concept of returning – by force if necessary – foreign persons, even become German, in their country of origin has found its place in the AFD program. For the first time too, his figurehead Alice Weidel pronounced it in the meeting, during the Riesa Congress (Saxony) on January 11. In an eternally torn party between his bourgeois and revolutionary temptations, it was an outstretched hand towards his extremist bangs.
In white-chunon turtleneck or pearl-collar blouse, the Chancellery candidate, almost 46 years old (February 6) embodies the face of a party assuming its radicality. He wants to get out of the euro and remove the free movement of workers from the European Union. In the Environment chapter, it is planned to leave the Paris climate agreement. She said it in the gallery by pointing the index to the public: “When we are in charge, we will demolish all wind turbines. Down with the windmills of shame! AFD is focusing on fossil fuels and importing Russian gas after restarting the North Stream pipeline.
-The “vine sheet” of his party
In an interview with the magazine “The American Conservative” published in early January, Alice Weidel describes her country as “slave” of the United States. While cheerfully benefiting from the resonance fund offered by the social network X, whose owner Elon Musk, suspected of having made a double Nazi salute during the inauguration of Trump, clearly displays AFD.
Former financial analyst of Goldman Sachs, granddaughter of a military judge of IIIe Reich, does not only succeed in the synthesis of a party, she personifies her contradictions. Concubine by Sarah Bossard, migrant of Sri Lankan origin, they raise two boys in Switzerland. Alice Weidel defends a program defining “the family, composed of the father, the mother and the children, as the basic cell of society”.
Historical untruths-she claimed that Adolf Hitler was a communist-do not harm the success of her campaign
Alice Weidel is “the perfect vine leaf for the party” to the many connections with the neonazi circles, judges the weekly “Der Spiegel”. “When someone says that AFD is misogynist, homophobic or racist, the executives retort that they have Weidel and that AFD cannot be – even if it is actually. »»
The historical untruths launched on the occasion of her discussion on X with Elon Musk-Alice Weidel claimed that Adolf Hitler was a communist-do not harm the success of her campaign. She directs a dynamic training, firmly anchored in second position, with around 20 % of voting intentions. The alternative, boycotted for the training of coalitions, has no chance of accessing power at the end of the vote next month, but every chance of becoming the first opposition force.
