ALFA — the Alternative to the “Alternative”

... (AfD) party, which had been making waves following the state elections to the Landtags of Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, has quite definitively been split into two separate political entities: the newly formed Alliance for Progress and Renewal (ALFA) party, which was officially created following a July 19 founders’ meeting; and the remnants of the Alternative for Germany party under the joint leadership of Frauke Petry and Alexander Gauland. It was clear that former AfD leader Bernd Lucke ...