Only a few days left before the European elections and the parties are preparing for this new expected election. As for the National Rally, Jordan Bardella heads the list with voting intentions of 33%. Behind him, the lists of the PS, led by Raphaël Glucksmann, and Renaissance, led by Valérie Hayer, remain at a distance with figures of 13 and 15.5%. In the middle of the campaign, Jordan Bardella, for his part, has just announced that he wanted to break his ties with a German far-right party. Decryption.
On May 21, Jordan Bardella explained that he wanted to dissociate himself from the AfD, a German far-right party, following comments made by Maximilian Krah, his head of the list. As our colleagues from RMC report, the president of the National Rally announced that he “no longer wanted to sit” in the European Parliament alongside the AfD, as indicated by his campaign director, Alexandre Loubet. In question ? A succession of comments, which soured relations between the two parties.
The head of the list of the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (Alternative for Germany) party, Maximilian Krah, declared that an SS was “not automatically criminal”. These remarks were made in an interview, which was published on May 18 in the Italian daily La Republicca. He also took the writer Günter Grass, Nobel Prize winner for Literature, as an example, saying that it was necessary to “evaluate mistakes individually”.
According to Maximilian Krah, “among the 900,000 SS, there were also many farmers” with “certainly a high percentage of criminals, but they were not all”. Statements that did not get through to the president of the National Rally, Jordan Bardella, who chose to break away from his party.
Remember that at the start of the year, Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella had already repressed certain comments from the party while Alice Weidel, co-president of the German far-right party, demanded that the German Parliament decide on restitution to the Comoros from Mayotte.
At the same time, Marine Le Pen had also asked the AfD for explanations with Jordan Bardella following the publication of an investigation which revealed the existence of a “Remigration plan” of the party and members of the neo-Nazi movement. The stated goal was to expel foreigners and “unassimilated” German citizens from Germany.
In this regard, Marine Le Pen demanded, last January, that this mention not appear in their program. A few months later, one of the party’s figures was fined 13,000 euros for using a swastika during a meeting several years earlier. If the National Rally had planned to decide on a break with the AfD after the European elections, their choice was ultimately determined earlier than expected.