Le Pen threatens AfD with end of joint EU parliamentary group

The right-wing populist Le Pen wants to become France’s president in 2027. But she doesn’t want to have anything to do with plans for mass expulsion, which some AfD members discussed. Le Pen threatens the AfD with the end of the joint EU faction.

The joint faction of the AfD and the Rassemblement National (RN) in the EU Parliament could be on the verge of collapse – because RN faction leader Marine Le Pen has threatened to end the alliance. The reason is the reports about the secret meeting in Potsdam between AfD politicians and right-wing extremists on the mass expulsion of people with a migrant background from Germany.

“I completely disagree with the proposals that were said to have been discussed at this meeting,” said the French right-wing populist, referring to the plans discussed in Potsdam. It must be examined “whether this will have consequences” for the joint group in the EU Parliament, added Le Pen.

“We have never defended a policy of remigration”

“We will have to talk about these very big differences of opinion,” said the politician, who wants to run as a candidate for the fourth time in the French presidential election in 2027.

“We have never defended a policy of remigration that would involve depriving people of the French nationality they have obtained, even if we criticize the conditions for obtaining it,” stressed Le Pen.

Mass displacement was discussed

According to research by the Correctiv network, AfD politicians, members of the right-wing conservative Values ​​Union, right-wing extremists and entrepreneurs met in November 2023 in a hotel near Potsdam to discuss the expulsion of millions of people with an immigrant background from Germany.

Martin Sellner, long-time spokesman for Austria’s right-wing extremist “Identitarian Movement”, presented a plan for such a mass expulsion, euphemistically called “remigration”.