Overview
- Frauke Petry, former AfD leader, has confirmed plans to launch a new political party, set to contest Germany's 2026 state elections.
- The party's platform focuses on halving the state spending ratio from 50% to 25% within five years and promoting freedom of expression.
- Petry aims to recruit non-partisan citizens and entrepreneurs as candidates, allowing them to participate without formal party membership.
- The initiative builds on the preparatory work of 'Team Freiheit,' an association Petry and her allies formed earlier this year.
- The party seeks to address what Petry calls a void in the political spectrum between CDU and AfD with a freedom-oriented, anti-etatist agenda.