The far-right AfD party in Germany held a conference in Magdeburg on Friday and Saturday to elect candidates for the European parliamentary elections next year.
The party currently polls at 22 per cent behind the opposition CDU party.
One of their best known MPs is Alice Weidel.
The AfD stresses that it supports traditional German values. It is opposed to the current German regulations on allowing refugees and asylum seekers enter the country.
Ms Weidel is in a civil union with a woman from Sri Lanka.
Another prominent member of the party is Björn Höcke whose views are close to the National Democratic Party of Germany.
In September 2019, a German court ruled that describing Höcke as fascist was not libellous. However, a later court ruling in 2020 ruled against the FDP politician Sebastian Czaja for stating that the court ruling had classified Höcke as a fascist.
Höcke has called for more "Prussian virtues" and promotes natalist views, specifically the "three-child family as a political and social model.”
He opposes gender mainstreaming and demands an end of what he calls "social experiments" that undermine what he deems the "natural gender order.”
In 2017, Höcke stated "dear young African men: for you there is no future and no home in Germany and in Europe!”
What is happening across the world is frightening.
Colm Tóibín’s novel The Magician captures in gripping detail how Thomas Mann experienced the rise of Hitler in his German homeland.
The novel, while talking about past events, constantly hints of what might well be happening in Europe and the US today.
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