OS leaders experience difficulties due to the AfD. - "Extremely conservative even for conservatives!"
The far-right Austrians from the previous Austrian government party, FPÖ, went against the expulsion of the AfD from the far-right group "Identity and Democracy" (ID) in the EU Parliament. This was ultimately decided. They did this along with radical right-wingers from Estonia.
This was an impossible move for the Vienna government!
For Chancellery and Europe Minister Karoline Edtstadler (43, ÖVP), Austrian and German far-right parties are too radical even for their colleagues from other EU countries.
▶︎ "FPÖ leader Kickl has now separated himself from the right and is too radical even for them. This demonstrates that he is alone in the right-wing corner alongside the AfD."
▶︎ This solidarity with Germany's right-wing party is "also harming our country's reputation."
▶︎ Kickl and the AfD are "radical and alone without allies in Europe."
The day before, FPÖ leader and former Interior Minister Herbert Kickl had sided with the AfD - despite the SS interview by AfD top candidate Maximilian Krah!
The ÖVP and Kickl's FPÖ had governed together in Vienna until 2019.
After the SS interview by AfD European lead candidate Krah in the Italian "Republica" was published, social democrats (SPÖ) and conservatives (ÖVP) called on Kickl's right-wingers to distance themselves from the AfD and Krah. Kickl, on the other hand, showed solidarity.
FPÖ and AfD - among Europe's right-wing groups, these two now stand alone in the far-right corner, shunned by the others.
The Austrian newspaper Presse commented, "While Marine Le Pen and Giorgia Meloni are working to turn the big wheel in Europe, the German-speaking populists are content to remain on the nationalist sidelines."
And that's true: for the powerful women of the European right, Giorgia Meloni (head of government in Italy) and Marine Le Pen (candidate in France to succeed Macron), AfD leader Alice Weidel is no longer a negotiating partner. They've distanced themselves from her. FPÖ leader Kickl is in the same boat in Europe.
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Source: symclub.org
