Alternative for Germany appears to be heading for its strongest national election result yet this month and has become a factor that can’t be ignored.

US vice president JD Vance met with Alice Weidel, the co-leader and candidate for chancellor of the Alternative for Germany party, his office said.

Vance met with leaders of all major German political parties, according to an official from his office - Anadolu Ajansı

The vice president met with the leaders of all four major German political parties — including Alice Weidel, leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance's office says he met the leader of a German far-right party during a trip to Germany on a day he gave a speech castigating European leaders.

US Vice President JD Vance weighed in on German and European politics in a wide-ranging newspaper interview on Friday, and reportedly plans to offer pointed thoughts again during a highly anticipated speech in Munich.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance met on Friday with Alice Weidel, the leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, while on a visit to Germany, an official in Vance's office said, according to a pool report.

US Vice President JD Vance met the co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, her spokesman confirmed to dpa. The anti-immigrant and eurosceptic party has been excluded from the high-profile gathering of world leaders and foreign policy experts under way in Munich.