Alice Weidel
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Alice Weidel

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 26, 202614 min
  • Documentary
  • Politics

Mark Coles profiles Alice Weidel, the some say, unlikely joint leader and public face of the far right, nationalist AfD - the Alternative for Germany party. Weidel's a right wing populist and a self confessed fan of Margaret Thatcher. Yet in some respects, particularly when it comes to her private life is seemingly at odds with, almost the antithesis of what her party stands for. Her supporters don't seem to mind. Weidel and the AfD have notched up a series of big win in local elections this month, including Saxony Anhalt, causing huge headaches for...

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Thanks for downloading Profile. This week's presenter is Mark Coles. BBC News, how long do you think Friedrich Mertz has left? Pretty soon he's got into a leaf. Yeah? You think so?

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German politics this week. Oh good. The woman we're profiling, Hallease Weidl, the according to some unlikely public face of the far-right nationalist AFD, the alternative for Germany party. She is worried about the fate of Germany, actually. We are worried that we are losing the country that we love. A right-wing populist, a self-confessed fan of Margaret Thatcher.

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Yet in some respects, particularly when it comes to her private life, vitals seemingly at odds with almost the antithesis of what a party stands for. The AFD is very popular in the form of communisties. She herself is from West Germany.

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