Alternative for Germany Party expelled from Identity and Democracy

[NYSforKennedy2024]

https://www.politico.eu/article/far-right-identity-and-democracy-group-expels-alternative-for-germany/?utm_source=LinkedIn&utm_medium=social

Germany’s largest far-right party Alternative for Germany (AfD) has been expelled from its pan-European group Identity and Democracy in the European Parliament following a series of scandals, according to two people working with the party.

Those tensions came to a boil this week when Maximilian Krah, a senior AfD lawmaker, told an Italian newspaper that members of the Nazi SS were not necessarily criminals. French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whose National Rally party belongs to the same grouping as the AfD, has said she no longer wants to sit with the party.

The ID group’s leadership has now voted to expel the AfD, two weeks before millions of people head to the polls to vote in the European election.

[CumbrianLefty]

Just think of how bad you have to be to get expelled from that bunch.

[Zinneke]

Just think of how bad you have to be to get expelled from that bunch.

Vlaams Belang literally still do a ceremony every year to honour the dead Flemish soldiers who joined the Waffen SS...

Like I said in the Le Pen thread, this is just good PR 3 weeks before an election. "Look at me I'm not a literal Nazi revisionist cuz I stood up to Ze Tchermans"

[Middle-aged Europe]

To be fair, not every party in the ID probably has as many GRU operatives in their ranks as the AfD does.

[Silent Hunter]

Their senior members were planning a crime against humanity in a villa near the Wannsee. History sometimes does repeat.

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Part of this is probably because some influential parties and people within AfD would like to be part of the big coalition after the election as it seems EPP + ECR + ID might very well have a majority. Expelling the more vile parts would fit within that idea in an effort to be seen as more acceptable and reasonable

[Flyersfan232]

Part of this is probably because some influential parties and people within AfD would like to be part of the big coalition after the election as it seems EPP + ECR + ID might very well have a majority. Expelling the more vile parts would fit within that idea in an effort to be seen as more acceptable and reasonable

honsently it would be best to take a page from the bsw page at this point and form another party and work with the likes of Bündnis Deutschland and WerteUnion