At a recent party conference in Riesa, Saxony, Alice Weidel fully embraced ... speaks during an AfD election campaign in Magdeburg, Germany, Monday, Dec. 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi ...
Thousands of people have demonstrated against a convention of the far-right Alternative for Germany, blocking some roads and delaying the meeting’s start as the country's major parties launched their ...
Organizers said they expected more than 10,000 people to attend demonstrations in eastern Saxony state. The far-right Alternative for Germany party is polling in second place ahead of February's ...
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) on Saturday unanimously elected party co-chair Alice Weidel as its candidate for chancellor in February's parliamentary elections, as thousands gathered outside to ...
The event marked the beginning of campaign season ahead of Germany’s elections next month. In Riesa, Saxony—a stronghold of AfD—a significant police presence was deployed. Officers cleared ...
(Jan Woitas/dpa via AP) Police clear a sit-in blockade at a demonstration against the AfD's national party conference Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025, in Saxony, Riesa, Germany. (Jan Woitas/dpa via AP ...
A heavy police presence was in place in Riesa — in the eastern state of Saxony, a stronghold of Alternative for Germany, or AfD — and officers cleared some protesters from the streets.