Germany's far-right AfD replaces 'Young Alternative' group

The Alternative for Germany wants to found a new youth organization to replace the Young Alternative. The move is controversial within the party.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party voted on Sunday to replace its controversial youth organization, a group that intelligence officials have classified as extremist, with a new formation.

At its party conference in Riesa, Saxony, the AfD decided to found a new youth organization. There were massive protests against the party congress. The organizers criticized the police operation.

The German radical right-wing party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) is officially breaking with its youth wing. At the party congress, a vote was taken to split from Junge Alternative für Deutschland (JA), which is known to be more extreme than its parent party. The AfD board had previously wanted to break with the youth wing, but to achieve this, a two-thirds majority at the party congress was needed. That was achieved today. JA will be repla…

AfD leader Alice Weidel, who was unanimously elected as candidate for chancellor on Saturday, has declared that she wants to make her party electable for the conservative, middle-class center. Against this background, the right-wing populist party wants to separate from its previous youth organization, the Young Alternative. At the federal party conference in Riesa, Saxony, on Sunday, it was decided to dissolve the old youth organization and est…