Alternative for Germany nominated the footballer Bertold as a candidate for the presidency of Germany.
The information distributed on the eve of "Bild" was confirmed by the chairman of the joint party, Alice Weidel.
"In Thomas Bertold we found a candidate from the heart of society who can truly represent all Germans," she wrote on the X social network.
According to Vidal, the AfD deliberately decided to rely on a non-party candidate, since "a real new beginning can only be given outside the framework of party calculations and old cliques."