Meet Alice Weidel, the ex-Goldman Sachs banker who could lead a far-right party to its best German election result since the Nazis

On Sunday, September 24, Germans will head to the polls and vote for a new parliament ' perhaps even a new chancellor.Pollsters are currently projecting an election victory for Angela Merkel and her centre-right party, the Christian Democratic Party (CDU).They also predictthat the far-right Alternative fr Deutschland (AfD) party will win seats in the German parliament. This would be the first time a far-right party sits in the Bundestag since the defeat of the Nazi party in 1945.Founded in 2013, the AfD is an anti-immigrant, anti-same-sex marriage, and anti-euro party.Yet, counterintuitively, it is led by Alice Weidel, an openly gay former investment banker married to a Swiss national. Weidel haspreviously suggested that Germany's legalisation of same-sex marriage was a waste of time, and branded immigrants "illiterate" while also saying they have contributed to a "brain drain" in the Middle East. She has also denied being racist.Scroll down to learn more about Alice Weidel.This is 38-year-old Alice Weidel, the co-leader of Germany's far-right Alternative fr Deutschland party.She and 76-year-old Alexander Gauland, run the party together.Instagram Embed:http://instagram.com/p/BXDpnnJn2w2/embed/Width: 658pxShe has a PhD in economics, worked for Goldman Sachs and Allianz Global Investors, and lived in China for six years. She even speaks conversational Chinese.After leaving the world of banking, she worked as a freelance consultant for startups, according German newspaper Der Speigel.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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