German far-right AfD’s leaders to run for another term in leadership

The co-leaders of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla, plan to remain as co-chairs of the party’s faction in the Bundestag, the lower house of German parliament.

Weidel said that she and Chrupalla both wanted to run, and that the joint leadership model had proved its worth. According to preliminary results from Sunday’s Bundestag election, the AfD roughly doubled its vote share from 2021 and finished in second place with nearly 20.8%.

Just hours after the results were announced, Weidel said she was already looking forward to the next Bundestag election, scheduled for 2029, and set the goal of coming in first place, ahead of the centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU).

“We have been able to form a very good platform here, a strategic platform that has the best prerequisites to overtake the CDU within the next few years for the next election, to become the strongest force and also to take the government mandate for ourselves,” she said.