Alice Weidel is to become the AfD candidate for chancellor and is now confidently placed at number one on the list of her regional association. But the freestyle is not entirely quiet.
The AfD co-chairwoman Alice Weidel was elected by a large majority as the Baden-Württemberg state association’s top candidate for the 2025 federal election. At a selection meeting on Saturday in Ulm, she received almost 87 percent of 877 votes cast. This was announced by co-state chairman Markus Frohnmaier, who was elected second on the state list with almost 82 percent approval and is also already a member of the Bundestag. According to media reports, a total of 25 places on the list will be allocated at the meeting by Sunday.
Weidel and her federal co-chairman, Tino Chrupalla, had agreed that the 45-year-old should run as candidate for chancellor in the federal election in autumn 2025. But she hasn’t been officially nominated yet.
Weidel opponent wants to leave the party
The party’s Baden-Württemberg regional association was long considered divided. Former state leader and Weidel opponent Dirk Spaniel told t-online that he wanted to leave the AfD after its election. “Every party gets the politicians it deserves,” he told the news portal. He is relieved that he no longer has to accept “the internal party mischief against me.” Spaniel also belongs to the AfD parliamentary group in the Bundestag.
According to police reports, around 2,000 people demonstrated against the meeting in the trade fair in Ulm in the afternoon. The AfD is observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a suspected right-wing extremist case, and some state associations have been classified as proven right-wing extremist by the responsible state Office for the Protection of the Constitution. The organizer of the protests was an Alliance for Democracy and Diversity.
Source: Stern
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