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| Germany’s AfD sets up talks with France’s Le Pen to clarify immigrant expulsion spat |
| 2024-01-31 |
| [IsraelTimes] Party chief wants to ’set record straight’ with European partner after members accused of discussing mass deportations, prompting criticism from Le Pen. Germany’s far-right AfD party said Monday that it had arranged talks with French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, given a rift over alleged debates on the mass expulsion of im Members of Alternative for Germany (AfD), which is riding high in opinion polls, were accused in a recent press investigation of discussing the idea of mass deportations at a meeting with bad boys. Le Pen last week distanced herself from the idea, saying she was "in complete disagreement with the proposal that was apparently discussed" at the meeting. Her party’s deputies belong to the same European Parliament group as the AfD, an arrangement Le Pen said was now up for discussion. AfD parliamentary group chief Bernd Baumann told journalists that talks had been arranged with Le Pen to "set the record straight on how things really are," without providing details of when the talks would be held. A front man for Maximilian Krah, an AfD member of the European Parliament, told AFP that "we consider this to be a misunderstanding... which we hope to clarify soon." According to the investigative media outlet Correctiv, AfD members discussed the expulsion of im Among the participants at the talks was Martin Sellner, a leader of Austria’s Identitarian Movement and a champion of so-called "remigration." The reported plans have led to a backlash against the AfD in Germany, with hundreds of thousands taking to the streets to protest against the party. Around 576,000 people took part in protests last weekend alone, an interior ministry spokeswoman said Monday. Le Pen, parliamentary leader of La Belle France’s National Rally (RN), has been trying to soften her party’s image since taking over from her father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, who is notorious for xenophobic and antisemitic remarks. "We are going to have to talk about divergences if they are as large as this one," she told journalists. Baumann said Le Pen’s comments had been "based on press reports" that were "completely wrong in their tone." Terms such as "deportation" and "mass expulsion" had not been used at the meeting, he said, but were "attributions on the part of this dubious Correctiv organization and large sections of the press." Sellner confirmed that he presented his "Identitarian concept of remigration" at the talks. The "concept targeted The AfD said Roland Hartwig, who is an aide of co-leader Alice Weidel, had presented a social media project at the meeting, but denied adopting Sellner’s ideas. Related: Marine Le Pen: 2023-11-13 Marine Le Pen: 2023-10-30 AfD's limited success Marine Le Pen: 2023-09-24 Le Pen accused of misusing EU funds Related: Alternative for Germany: 2024-01-29 Germany’s far-right AfD party suffers regional electoral defeat after mass protests Alternative for Germany: 2024-01-16 Right-wing party allegedly discussed deporting millions from Germany at meeting with Identitarian Movement Alternative for Germany: 2023-12-31 Over 7,000 Women in Germany Have Been Raped or Sexually Assaulted by Asylum Seeking Migrants Since 2015: Report |
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| Posted by: Skidmark 2024-01-31 07:33 |