Editing Alice Weidel (section)

=== Political career ===
Weidel has joined "Alternative für Deutschland" (AfD) since its foundation, in 2013 he joined the Baden-Württemberg section of the AfD, in 2015 he joined the national council of the party. In the 2016 Baden-Württemberg Landtag elections she ran for the electoral district of Lake Constance, but she was not elected. 

In December 2016, during the talk show Menschen bei Maischberger, he claimed that Angela Merkel was co-responsible for the murder of a young woman in Freiburg im Breisgau. The talk show host was later criticized for giving Weidel space to talk during the show. Following Weidel's speech during his nomination as top candidate, in which he incited the fear of "groping strangers" and incited a commitment to "our values and our identity" he was defined by Alan Posener in the newspaper Die Welt as "the future of the AfD, the new Petry. Charismatic, good looking, intelligent, with good rhetoric and apparently willing to sacrifice principles in the name of power".

At the beginning of March 2017 she was defeated in the election for regional representative at the AfD regional congress by Ralf Özkara. In April 2017, during the national party congress held in Cologne, she was nominated top candidate for the 2017 Bundestag elections together with party president Alexander Gauland. After the national congress, Weidel and Gauland cut off communications with spokesperson Frauke Petry; she declared in August 2017 her willingness to dialogue with the two leading candidates. According to media reports, Weidel voted in favor of the exclusion during the deportation proceedings of Björn Höcke. After his nomination as top candidate Weidel stated that he would also lead the electoral campaign together with Höcke.In the debate surrounding Alexander Gauland's claim that SPD member Aydan Özoğuz was "disposed of in Anatolia", his grandparents' country of origin, Weidel defended Gauland by arguing that the phrase was "a matter of taste", but that in essence Gauland was right.

In the 2017 Bundestagstag elections she was a candidate in the constituency of Lake Constance and was defeated by the CDU candidate Lothar Riebsamen. As the leading candidate on the party list in Baden-Württemberg, she joined the Bundestag, where she is the party leader.

On 5 September 2017, the abandonment of the election broadcast Deutschland, wie geht’s? Aroused the interest of the media. of the national broadcaster ZDF following the request by the general secretary of the CSU Andreas Scheuer to distance himself from Alexander Gauland and Björn Höcke. Experts claim that the action was calculated and part of the campaign tactic. Even the mimicry expert Dirk Eilert argued that Weidel's release was not spontaneous but appears studied and pleased.