AdG officially nominates Alice Weidel as candidate for Chancellor of Germany

The Alternative for Germany (AdG) party has nominated Alice Weidel as a candidate for chancellor of Germany in the upcoming parliamentary elections. This was reported by the Tagesschau newspaper on December 7.

Weidel said during a press conference, which was broadcast on her page on social network X (formerly Twitter), that she wants to seek peace in Ukraine and stop supplying weapons to Kiev.

According to polls, the AdG is now in second place with 20 percent, behind the opposition Christian Democratic and Christian Social Union bloc.

Peaceful entreaties: why Scholz went to Kiev for the first time in two and a half years

The German chancellor convinces his voter that Germany is becoming a serious player under his leadership

Earlier, on November 25, the leadership of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) unanimously nominated incumbent German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as a candidate for the election

Prior to that, on November 17, the Greens endorsed Vice Chancellor and Economy Minister Robert Habeck as a candidate for Chancellor of Germany.

November 8, historian, political scientist, Germanist, candidate of historical sciences Evgenia Pimenova said that the most likely candidate for the post of Chancellor of Germany to replace Scholz is the head of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Friedrich Merz.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on November 6 that early elections would be held in the country. Then he noted that the latest when the elections could be held is the end of March 2025. At the same time, he said that he would raise the issue of a vote of confidence in the government in the Bundestag.