The German Party Alternative for Germany (Afd) prohibits its
leading candidate in the European elections, Maximilian Krah, to participate in public eventsthe. Dpa made this known, quoting a party spokesperson after yesterday’s sentence from the Spitzenkandidat on the SS: “An SS man – he had stated – is not automatically a criminal”.
According to Bild, the decision was taken during a meeting of the party’s Federal Executive Committee this morning. Krah’s ban concerns all party events at federal level and those planned as part of the campaign for the European elections. However, Der Spiegel underlines, Krah remains Spitzenkandidat ahead of the vote.
According to the Tabloid, Krah anticipated the Executive Committee’s move, submitting his resignation before the party’s federal committee proceeded to expel him from the same body. “I will never say that anyone who wore an SS uniform was automatically a criminal,” Krah recently declared in an interview with ‘Repubblica’. And Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National has announced that it wants to end political cooperation with the AfD.
Now the party is moving towards the vote – underlines Bild – in the absence, in terms of public events, of the campaign’s leading figures: in addition to its Spitzenkandidat, number two on the list, Petr Bystron, has had to give up public events. After the suspicions of corruption, Bystron was asked by the two AfD leaders, Tino Chrupalla and Alice Weidel, not to participate in other electoral campaign events until his situation was fully clarified.
Krah: “My statements used to damage the party, I resign”
“I note that my factual and differentiated statements are being used as a pretext to damage our party. The last thing we need right now is a debate about me. The AfD must maintain its unity. For For this reason, I will refrain from further campaign appearances with immediate effect and will resign as a member of the Federal Executive Committee,” he later wrote on X Krah.
Salvini: “Statement out of this world”
“It is the declaration, absolutely out of this world, of someone who, among other things, resigned this morning. If someone goes so far as to say that not all the SS were criminals, it may have very little to do with me”, comments the deputy prime minister and leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, on ‘The Red and the Black’ on Rai Radio Uno. “We don’t look at the past, I am ‘anti’ everything that is the past, I look to the future. Surely some declarations by those nostalgic for Nazism or Communism are out of time and out of the world”, adds Salvini.
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