Pan-EU Right-Wing In Sight?:German AfD Party May Join Alliance With French National Front
SputnikNews.com
11.04.2016
The AfD (Alternative for Germany) deputy chairman Alexander Gauland is considering a possible accession of his party to a new European populist alliance, which would include the right-wing French party National Front (FN) and other European factions.
The politician is in favor of AfD joining the union, should the new group of EU-critical parties be established in the near future, he told Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
“You do not have to like the FN, but the moment might come when you will have to say: we can cooperate with the FN, even if we don’t agree with everything it stands for,” Gauland said.
The AfD’s new course has surprised many as only a few months ago the party distanced itself from the National Front, the Freedom Party of Austria (FPÖ) and other right-wing factions in Europe.
When the party’s representative Björn Höcke congratulated the National Front on its victory in the French regional elections, he was sharply criticized by the party’s federal spokesman Jörg Meuthen who called the statement “wrong and inappropriate.”
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