Marine Le Pen publicly distanced herself from the German party at the end of January, after the participation of several of its executives in discussions around a plan for the mass expulsion of “non-assimilated” foreign and German people.
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Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella and Alice Weidel, the co-president of the AfD, had lunch in Paris on Tuesday February 20. A meeting revealed by Alice Weidel herself, on X (ex-Twitter), and confirmed by the RN, with the political service of France Inter.
A party threatened with ban
“Today I spoke personally with Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella. We discussed many political issues and found that we are seeking the same solutions to today’s big problems”, wrote the co-president of the AfD (tweet below). Party leadership took part in meeting regarding plan for mass expulsion of foreigners and Germans “not assimilated”, provoking, last January, large demonstrations against the far right which brought together millions of people throughout Germany. This meeting provoked a debate on the banning of the German party. A petition in this sense has since obtained more than 800,000 supports.
At the end of January, during her greetings to the parliamentary press, the leader of the RN deputies in the National Assembly had, for the first time, publicly distanced herself because of these revelations on the secret remigration plan: “I consider that we have, if that is the case, a blatant opposition with the AfD. And we will be led to discuss the differences, and see if these differences have or do not have consequences, on the capacity that we have to ally ourselves in the same group”, she declared. Since then, relations have been known to be tense between the two parties in the European Parliament.
