Alice Weidel 's speech began by chanting the colors of the German flag, "black, red, gold!". They were the springboard for an uninhibited speech, in which the far-right AfD leader, elected by the party congress as a candidate for chancellor for the February 23 polls , showed her cards without too many qualms. "What will we do if we are at the helm?" she shouted in an almost threatening tone, before giving her answers. Here are some of them. AfD intends to withdraw from the EU's climate policies, tear down the "shameful" wind turbines and return to nuclear power: "And we will reopen the Nord Stream, rest assured!", she thundered from the stage. Not only that. Alternative fuer Deutschland wants to close the borders. "We will seal them off! And I say it clearly: if we have to call it re-migration, it will be called re-mi-gra-tion ," she chanted. A disturbing passage was also dedicated to gender policies, by the gay leader who famously has a partner: «We will close gender studies and kick out these professors!».

She didn't mince her words, also strengthened by Elon Musk's friendship. And besides, while speaking in Riesa, Saxony, the leader of Alternative for Germany was able to count once again on the help of the Tesla billionaire, who offered her his X platform to stream the congress, even on her personal profile: after he hadn't batted an eyelid when he heard her say that "Hitler was a communist" two days ago on the same social network. Weidel thanked him explicitly and concluded: "We are for freedom of expression in this country".

But as always there was also the interference of the opposite sign: thousands of demonstrators tried to block the streets , to prevent the Parteitag from working. Six injured officers and 34 investigated is the toll of the day.

The nomination as lead candidate - while in Berlin the SPD elected Olaf Scholz - took place by show of hands and she, the only one to present herself, was rewarded by unanimous consensus.

Migration, climate, energy and gender are the issues tackled with the most combative attitude by the economist, who announced that he has a plan for the hundred days of government , if Afd were to take part, after the vote: "We will make sure that all those who do not have the documents to stay are sent away. We will make sure that the message to the world is clear: Germany's borders are closed!".

Weidel then cited the model of Hungary and the Netherlands to ensure that the Federal Republic "will exit the asylum system of the European Union". Exit also announced on climate: "We will reopen the Nord Stream, you can count on that, and we will put an end to the energy transition. We will exit the EU's climate policy. We will reactivate the nuclear power plants that are capable of functioning and we will invest in new generation ones. This is a serious energy policy", he warned.

The party's enemy is, as always, the CDU, which has been brought up in very harsh tones also for the policies of the Merkel era: "They should be ashamed!" And the Christian Democrats will have a big problem if the polls were to come true at the ballot box: according to an Insa survey, AfD would have grown further, reaching 22%, while the conservatives are given 30. "Dangerous numbers", commented Bild. The Union and Alternative together would have over 50% of the consensus and this could undermine Friedrich Merz's choice to exclude any collaboration. The cordon sanitaire against extremists is also being put to the test in the Federal Republic.

(Online Union)

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