2024-01-25 14:09:02
Published25. January 2024, 3:09 p.m
France: Le Pen is heading on a collision course with the AfD
The French right-wing populist Marine Le Pen clearly distances herself from the AfD following reports of a secret meeting with right-wing extremists in Potsdam.
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Marine Le Pen distances herself from the AfD.
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AfD politicians took part in a meeting with right-wing extremists and discussed the mass expulsion of people from Germany.
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It must be examined “whether this will have consequences” for the joint group in the EU Parliament, said Le Pen.
After the reports regarding the Potsdam secret meeting with right-wing extremists, the French right-wing populist Marine Le Pen has clearly distanced herself from the AfD and threatened to end the joint group in the EU Parliament. “I completely disagree with the proposals that were supposed to have been discussed at this meeting,” said Le Pen, referring to the plans for “remigration” discussed in Potsdam.
It must be examined “whether this will have consequences” for the joint group in the EU Parliament, added Le Pen. “We will have to talk regarding these very big differences of opinion,” said the politician, who wants to run as a candidate for the fourth time in the French presidential election in 2027.
Joint group in the EU Parliament
“We have never defended a policy of ‘remigration’ that would involve depriving people of the French citizenship they have received, even if we criticize the conditions for obtaining it,” emphasized Le Pen, currently leader of her right-wing populist Rassemblement party National (RN) in the French National Assembly.
AfD and RN both belong to the Identity and Democracy faction in the EU Parliament. RN party leader Jordan Bardella is its vice-chairman.
Research network uncovered meetings
According to research by the Correctiv network, AfD politicians, members of the right-wing conservative Values Union, right-wing extremists and entrepreneurs met in November 2023 in a hotel near Potsdam to discuss the expulsion of millions of people with an immigrant background from Germany.
Martin Sellner, long-time spokesman for the right-wing extremist “Identitarian Movement” in Austria, presented a plan for such a mass expulsion, euphemistically called “remigration”.
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