Tag: Alternative für Deutschland

AfD Elects New Federal Board

In search of unity, the AfD elected a new federal board around co-chairmen Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel. But, a dispute over a resolution on the conflict in Ukraine shows that unity is still a long way off.

AfD Co-leader Jörg Meuthen Leaves the Party

Jörg Meuthen said that his decision to leave the AfD was prompted by a defeat in an intraparty power struggle with the Rightist, national-populist faction of the party.

AfD Lawmaker Attacked by Left-Wing Extremists

Nikolaus Kramer, the AfD group leader for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, condemned the attack on Michael Meister saying: “How did we reach a place in this country where MPs are attacked on the street because of their party membership?”

16 Years of Merkelism: A Retrospective

Having managed the country with the sole aim of keeping her ‘clientelist’ system in power for as long as possible, Angela Merkel is disappearing from the political scene—just as the first cracks in the German ‘ship of state’ are beginning to show.