AfD leader Weidel criticises party's family model, says she lives differently in same-sex partnership
Alice Weidel, co-leader of Germany's far-right AfD, has distanced herself from her party's Saxony-Anhalt election programme, which calls the traditional mother-father-child unit the best basis for child development. Weidel lives with a woman and raises two children with her.
The interview
On the sidelines of the AfD federal party conference in Erfurt, co-leader Alice Weidel spoke to RTL/ntv. She was asked about the Saxony-Anhalt state election programme's language on family, which she criticised as out of step with her own life.
The programme's family model
The programme states that "an intact family consisting of mother, father and children is proven to be the best prerequisite for a good and healthy child development." Weidel, who lives with a woman and raises two children with her, took issue with that formulation.
Weidel's personal stance
She added that her own children have the best upbringing and conditions.They can write what they want. I live something else.
We now live in a completely different reality. So same-sex relationships are to be treated equally.
Party line vs. personal reality
Weidel defended the party's general orientation toward the traditional family as a societal target image, saying it is not a contradiction to advocate for it while living differently.
When I as a politician talk about a societal target image, and that is simply the traditional family, then I can advocate for it and it is not a contradiction.
