AfD's Top Candidate Travels to U.S. Legal Congress Just Before Election - AfD's Frohnmaier heads to U.S. days before critical Baden-Württemberg vote
Just days before Baden-Württemberg's state election, AfD's top candidate Markus Frohnmaier is traveling to a U.S. congress of right-wing lawmakers. Here's why he claims he'll be advocating for the region's interests there.
Markus Frohnmaier, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party's lead candidate in Baden-Württemberg's upcoming state election, plans to fly to the United States just before the vote. From March 3 to 5, he will travel to Washington to attend an event titled The Alliance of Sovereign Nations, the Bundestag member announced. The trip was first reported by the podcast Inside AfD. The state election is scheduled for March 8.
AfD Bundestag member Anna Rathert had previously announced, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, that a delegation would attend an international congress of right-wing parliamentarians. The gathering, set for March 4 and 5, was co-initiated by Rathert and U.S. Representative Anna Paulina Luna of the Republican Party, which backed former President Donald Trump. The AfD delegation is expected to include three or four policy specialists.
According to the podcast, Frohnmaier is also slated to speak at the Turning Point Action event. He stated that the exchange serves to actively safeguard jobs in Baden-Württemberg, arguing that responsible policymaking cannot be confined to domestic efforts alone. Instead, he said, economic interests must be represented wherever key decisions on investment and trade are made.
Frohnmaier justified his planned Washington visit by pointing to the tens of thousands of jobs at stake—particularly in the automotive sector, which employs over 315,000 people directly in the state and relies on exports for more than 77% of its output. He emphasized that stable transatlantic relations are critical to preserving these positions.
Baden-Württemberg will elect a new state parliament on March 8. Current polls place the AfD at around 20%, trailing the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Greens. Frohnmaier, who also serves as deputy parliamentary group leader for the AfD in the Bundestag and is a close confidant of party co-leader Alice Weidel, has ambitions to become the state's minister-president—but he is not running for a seat in the state legislature.
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