Le Pen threatens the Alternative for Germany party over “re-immigration” plans
French right-wing populism is distancing itself from its colleagues in Germany and threatening to end the common faction in the European Union.
Marine Le Pen speaks during a press conference in Paris on January 25, 2024.
Photography: Alain Jocard (AFP)
Following reports of a secret Potsdam meeting with right-wing extremists, Marine Le Pen, the French right-wing populist, clearly distanced herself from the AfD and threatened to end the joint group in the EU Parliament. “I do not completely agree with the proposals that were supposed to be discussed at this meeting,” Le Pen said, referring to the “repatriation” plans discussed in Potsdam.
Le Pen added that it should be studied “whether this would have consequences” for the joint group in the European Union Parliament. “We will have to talk about these big differences of opinion,” said the politician, who wants to run for the fourth time in the French presidential elections in 2027.
Le Pen, leader of the right-wing populist National Rally party, stressed, “We have never defended an immigration policy that would deprive people of the French citizenship they have obtained, even if we criticized the conditions for obtaining it.” (RN) in the French National Assembly.
The AfD and the National Front both belong to the Identity and Democracy faction in the EU Parliament. RN party leader Jordan Bardella is its vice president.
According to research by the Correctiv network, AfD politicians, members of the right-wing conservative Union of Values, right-wing extremists and business leaders met in November 2023 at a hotel near Potsdam to discuss the expulsion of millions of people with migrant backgrounds. from Germany. Martin Sellner, spokesman for the far-right “Identity Movement” in Austria, presented a plan for such a mass expulsion, which he euphemistically called “remigration.”
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