ROME. The next bad news for the AfD: after that French National Rally (RN) The Italian right-wing party ‘Lega’ under party leader Matteo Salvini is now distancing itself. The party’s delegation in the EU Parliament This is reported by the Ansa news agency said she agreed with the RN on the issue of further cooperation with the AfD. “As always, Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen are in complete agreement.”
Background is one Interview with the AfD top candidate about the EU elections, Maximilian Krah, in an Italian newspaper. Opposite the Italian mass paper The Republic When asked, he said that not every member of the SS was automatically a criminal. “I will never say that someone who wore an SS uniform was automatically a criminal.” Towards the end of World War II, the SS committed several massacres in France and Italy.
Salvini governs as a junior partner together with Giorgia Meloni and is Minister of Transport. Until now, he was actually considered a loyal ally of the AfD. According to information from JF, Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla’s party was already on the weekend of the Spanish Vox party not to a large meeting of the European right-wing parties invited. The FPÖ has also not yet publicly expressed its solidarity with the AfD. (ho)