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 was seeking to create a new political party when he founded the Weckruf 2015 association earlier in the year. The party was ...