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EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: ID Group Excludes Germany's AfD Ahead Of Elections

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The right-wing nationalist Identity and Democracy (ID) group within the European Parlaiment has officially excluded the delegation from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party following the furore surrounding comments made by erstwhile head of the AfD list for the European Parliament elecitons, Maximilian Krah. 

  • On 22 May, Krah stepped back from all campaigning and resigned from the AfD's leadership team as public outrage grew following comments he made in an interview with Italian outlet La Repubblica. During an interview he said that members of the Nazi's paramilitary force the Schutzstaffel (SS) "were not all criminals".
  • In the wake of the comments, Marine le Pen - head of France's right-wing Rassembelement National (RN) - said that her party is making a "clean break" with the AfD.
  • Earlier in the year, opinion polling had shown the AfD on course to emerge as the second-largest German party in the EP behind the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). However, a series of scandals, including one of Krah's aides being arrested on suspicion of spying for China and a preliminary investigation by police into Krah potentially accepting money from Russia and China for his work as an MEP, have damaged its standing. 
  • The exclusion of the AfD is likely to see ID fall behind the other main right-wing grouping, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), come the election on 6-9 June. 
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The right-wing nationalist Identity and Democracy (ID) group within the European Parlaiment has officially excluded the delegation from the Alternative for Germany (AfD) party following the furore surrounding comments made by erstwhile head of the AfD list for the European Parliament elecitons, Maximilian Krah. 

  • On 22 May, Krah stepped back from all campaigning and resigned from the AfD's leadership team as public outrage grew following comments he made in an interview with Italian outlet La Repubblica. During an interview he said that members of the Nazi's paramilitary force the Schutzstaffel (SS) "were not all criminals".
  • In the wake of the comments, Marine le Pen - head of France's right-wing Rassembelement National (RN) - said that her party is making a "clean break" with the AfD.
  • Earlier in the year, opinion polling had shown the AfD on course to emerge as the second-largest German party in the EP behind the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU). However, a series of scandals, including one of Krah's aides being arrested on suspicion of spying for China and a preliminary investigation by police into Krah potentially accepting money from Russia and China for his work as an MEP, have damaged its standing. 
  • The exclusion of the AfD is likely to see ID fall behind the other main right-wing grouping, the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), come the election on 6-9 June.