AfD leader Alice Weidel has justified her party’s use of the term “remigration” in a letter to French right-wing populist Marine Le Pen.
AfD leader Alice Weidel has justified her party’s use of the term “remigration” in a letter to French right-wing populist Marine Le Pen. German media accuse Weidel of “lies” and “manipulation” in connection with the secret Potsdam meeting with the aim of weakening the AfD before the upcoming elections. The word “remigration” simply means the application of existing laws in Germany, Weidel wrote in the letter, which was available to AFP on Tuesday.
Last week, Weidel met with the parliamentary group leader of the right-wing populist Rassemblement National (RN), Le Pen, in Paris. Here you can read more about it. According to RN information, Weidel committed to written “clarifications” about her party’s positions following the reports on the Potsdam meeting.
Right-wing and right-wing conservatives met with extremist Sellner
According to research by the Correctiv network, AfD politicians, members of the right-wing conservative Values Union, right-wing extremists and entrepreneurs gathered in a hotel in November 2023 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”.
Le Pen then clearly distanced himself from the AfD and threatened to end the joint group in the EU Parliament. AfD and RN both belong to the Identity and Democracy faction in the EU Parliament. You can read more about the meeting of right-wing leading women here.
In her letter to Le Pen, Weidel wrote that Correctiv reported on the meeting with “dramatizations and lies” and that “sneaky comparisons” were also made. This representation was adopted by “almost all media”. The AfD chairwoman went on to write that this was a welcome opportunity for the “unpopular left-wing government” to distract from the country’s actual problems.
