The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) leader, Alice Weidel, told reporters on Monday, “We demand a vote of confidence and new elections.” “People have had enough.”
After defeating the center-left SPD of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to take second place in the European Parliament elections with 16% of the vote, the far-right in Germany is ecstatic.
The outcomes of the AfD are better than anticipated. Numerous scandals dogged their presidential campaign, including claims of money laundering, Kremlin funding, and Chinese espionage.
Ultimately, the AfD was forced to run their campaign without either of their two front-runners, Maximilian Krah or Petr Bystron, as they were being looked into for possible ties to China and Russia.
The tipping point for Mr. Krah was when he suggested that not all SS officers were criminals and minimized the murders committed by the Nazis.
Even Marine Le Pen, the hard-right leader of France, found the AfD to be too poisonous, and she expelled the party from the right-wing European parliamentary group Identity and Democracy.
In an apparent attempt to mend fences with her far-right friends in Europe, Ms. Weidel has removed Mr. Krah from the AfD’s EU mission in an effort to improve the party’s reputation.
