The far right Alternative for Germany (AfD) intends to create a third far-right group in the European Parliament that could include the formation of Alvise Pérez, The Party is Over (SALF), German media reported this Monday.
According to German public television, ARDwhich cites sources close to the leadership of the ultra formation, the federal leadership of the AfD unanimously decided this Monday to recommend at its congress next weekend the departure of the Identity and Democracy (ID) group.
ID had already expelled the AfD delegation from the parliamentary group a few weeks ago following controversial statements by the German party’s main candidate for the European elections on July 9, Maximilian Krah, in which he asked “not to directly classify the SS under the leadership of Adolf Hitler as criminals.”
The far-right party I had only been in ID for a year considering the alliance an “adequate platform to promote the creation of networks with the AfD’s European sister parties”, according to the resolution adopted this Monday by the party leadership. Now their goal is to independently follow and design the path in Europe to achieve their own interests. “This requires partners who respect and share our interests,” he says.
AfD expected a rapprochement with the ID parliamentary group after the European elections, for which excluded Krah from its EU delegation, but the German formation was not readmitted.
Since then, there is great resentment in the formation for having let himself be convinced in too many internal matters by its previous European partners, so AfD will now try to form a new parliamentary group in Brussels with other far-right parties, he points out ARD.
In the list of potential new partners In addition to SALF, there are SOS Romania, the Slovak Hnutie Republika (Republican Movement), NIKH from Greece, Mi Hazank Mozgalom (Our Homeland) from Hungary and the Polish Konfederacja or its even more extreme sister party Ruch Narodowy.
According to Der Spiegelthe new parliamentary group could be called “The Sovereignists“.
Last week, the news portal Euractiv suggested that the members of this possible group could come mainly from the signatories of the so-called Sofia Declarationinitiated last April by the Bulgarian Vazrazhdane party to demand, among other things, peace negotiations on the Russian war against Ukraine and an end to the EU’s supposed “galloping bureaucracy.”
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