Alice Weidel, co-leader and candidate for chancellor for the AfD (Alternative for Germany), an ultra-conservative, nationalist, and immigration-critical party, presents contradictions between her personal life and her party's political positions. Weidel is a lesbian and lives with Sarah Bossard, a woman born in Sri Lanka and raised in Switzerland, while the AfD promotes the idea of traditional family and rejects the right of adoption by same-sex couples. The couple has adopted two children, something that goes against the party's program.
The geographical question adds another layer of contradiction. Despite presenting herself as the face of assertive German nationalism, Weidel lives with her family in Switzerland, in Einsiedeln, maintaining only a registered residence in Germany. This situation raises questions about the flexibility of the concept of homeland within the party itself.
The article clarifies that these contradictions do not automatically constitute proof of hypocrisy, as a person can politically advocate for restrictions that do not apply to their own life. However, it raises the question of why an ideology that intends to legislate on the personal experience of others does not apply to its own leader.
The text concludes that the problem is not Weidel's private life in itself, but rather the incongruity between a political machine that transforms family, nationality, and origin into criteria for cultural combat and a leader who quietly crosses through these same categories that the party intends to restrict.
