From Le Figaro with AFP
Published 2 hours ago, updated 2 hours ago
National Rally (RN) President Marine Le Pen presents her wishes to the press during a press conference on January 25, 2024 in Paris. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP
The RN leader expressed reservations about continuing the partnership that links her party with Germany's far-right party, which is at the center of a controversy for advocating “return migration.”
Marine Le Pen warned her German partners in the AfD on Thursday, January 25, amid controversy for advocating a form of “remigration” and questioning “the ability” to form “in the same group” in the Strasbourg parliament to ally. as is the case today. “We are asked to discuss together differences as important as these and to see whether these differences (…) have an impact on our ability to unite in the same group,” the French right-wing extremist explained during a press conference in Paris.
The Alternative for Germany party (“Alternative for Germany,” AfD) caused controversy two weeks ago after the press exposed a meeting attended by several of its leaders in Potsdam, near Berlin, in November, where they proposed a plan for the mass expulsion of Es Foreigners or people of foreign origin, including German citizens, were discussed.
“Complete disagreement”
Huge demonstrations against the party, which is accused of destroying democracy, have been taking place across the country for several days. “I do not agree at all with the proposal that would have been discussed or decided at this meeting,” stressed the leader of the Rassemblement Nationale, Marine Le Pen, on Thursday, saying that she for her part defended “all French people, whatever.” their conditions for acquiring nationality”.
“We have never defended ‘remigration’ in the sense that those who have acquired it would be deprived of French nationality, even under conditions that we deny,” she added. The Lepenist MEPs currently sit in the same group as the AfD MEPs in the Strasbourg parliament. They have also held several joint meetings in recent weeks with a view to the European elections on June 9th. “I believe that we have a clear opposition with the AfD,” emphasized the MP from Pas-de-Calais.
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