The far right in Germany unanimously chooses Alice Weidel as a candidate for the chancellery

Delegates of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party this Saturday unanimously selected the party’s co-chair, Alice Weidel, as its candidate for the country’s Chancellery in next month’s parliamentary elections.

The nearly 600 delegates approved Weidel’s figure at the congress that the AfD is holding this weekend, amid strict security measures and protests against the formation, in the city of Riesa, in the bastion state of Saxony.

AfD co-president Tino Chrupalla opened the conference by recalling the good results the party is achieving in the polls, which give it an edge. 20% voting intention. “We have to put that percentage behind us and keep growing,” he said before introducing “the future chancellor.”

Moments later, Weidel was praised as the party’s candidate without any vote, after the delegates simultaneously rose from their seats to give the party’s co-chair a loud applause.

Weidel, 45, has outlined what the first 100 days of an AfD government would be, which would include border closures and “large-scale repatriations,” and has even coined the controversial term “re-emigration“, which is included in the election manifesto.

He has also promised that his government will “take down all the windmills” and resort to doing so nuclear energy “apparently by putting operational nuclear power plants back on the grid” and extending the life of coal-fired thermal power plants.

“Let’s close all gender studies and fire all those professors,” he declared before attacking universities that have become “queer-progressive training camps.”

Weidel has assured that Germany will host again Russian natural gas via the Nord Stream gas pipeline that crosses the Baltic Sea and has thanked Elon Musk, who has expressly expressed his support for the AfD.