The main far-right party of France says it will no longer align with its erstwhile German allies, the AfD, in the EU parliament. This followed comments by the AfD’s top candidate about the Nazi SS paramilitary force
France’s main far-right party National Rally (RN) on Tuesday said it would no longer work alongside the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the European Parliament.
RN said it would create some distance from the German party after comments by the AfD’s top candidate about the Nazi SS paramilitary force in the run-up to June’s EU elections.
Marine Le Pen’s RN tops French polls just two over weeks away from the EU election and is tipped to comfortably beat President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition.
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RN said it would create some distance from the German party after comments by the AfD’s top candidate about the Nazi SS paramilitary force in the run-up to June’s EU elections.
Marine Le Pen’s RN tops French polls just two over weeks away from the EU election and is tipped to comfortably beat President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition.
The AfD’s lead candidate in the EU election, Maximilian Krah, told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica that, just because a person had been a member of the SS, that individual was “not automatically a criminal.”
France was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1944, and the country suffered widespread human rights abuses, forced labor, and the brutal suppression of French resistance movements.
“The AfD has crossed lines that I see as red,” Jordan Bardella, head of the RN candidate list, said in an election debate on the French television channel LCI.
The AfD last week suffered a stinging defeat as a court dismissed its effort to stop Germany’s intelligence services from investigating it as a suspected extremist organization.
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