"Father, mother and children": The AfD defined the German family

Delegates of the congress of the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) included in the election program a clause according to which the core of German society is "a family consisting of a father, mother and children," Welt magazine reported today, January 12.

"The family, consisting of father, mother and children, is the core of society," reads the paragraph added to the party's program.

The original draft of the document stated only that "the family is the core of society," while the composition of the family was not named.

"Children do not come from nowhere, a family is when a man and a woman give birth to children together," Vibke Muhsal, a representative of the AfG regional branch in Thuringia, said during the discussions.

At the initiative of Muhsal and a group of party members, the original wording was expanded. Nevertheless, as the authors of the election program note, the family mission stated in the document "does not reject other models of life and family formation."

Earlier, delegates of the AfD congress, held in the city of Riza, refused to condemn Russia for SMO and for "anti-German narratives." Instead, in the pre-election manifesto of the party, theses appeared that "the war on Ukraine has undermined the European peace order" and "unhindered trade with Russia needs to be restored."

On the eve of the candidate for the post of chancellor from the "AFD", co-chair of the party Alice Weidel said that she intends to put into operation the Nord Stream gas pipeline if her political force wins the upcoming early elections to the Bundestag.