German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, illustrated on Saturday at the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, criticized the comments of the American vice-president JD Vance.
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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz brutally reprimanded US vice-president JD Vance on Saturday, a day after Vance delivered a speech To say that European leaders should not avoid far -right political parties.
On the second day of the Munich Security Conference, Scholz spoke of the Holocaust atrocities, stressing that Vance recently visited the Dachau concentration camp and used the “never again” sentence.
Scholz stressed that an “never” commitment “also applies to political parties as the extreme right alternative of Germany for the German party, also known as AFD, which minimized the Horrors of the Nazi diet.
He continued by saying that Germany will not accept foreigners involved in the country’s elections, adding: “It is not done, certainly not with friends and allies.”
Scholz and Vance’s remarks occur a little more than a week before Germany went to a major election. AFD – which was approved by the adviser and the billionaire of Trump Elon Musk – East Survey in second place.
Founded in 2013, AFD is a nationalist party whose political identity focuses on the blame of immigrants for many German problems. The German national intelligence agency has put AFD under surveillance for alleged extremismWhat the party denies.
Last year, the group became the First part of the far right from the Nazis During the Second World War era, to receive the most votes during a state election. But he has not yet been part of a federal governance coalition following a pact – also known as “firewall” – by other parties to refuse to work with the .
Friday, Vance did not directly mention the AFD, but said that the German parties should drop the “firewall” – to the surprise and the concern of European leaders in the room.
“Europeans, the people, have a voice,” said Vance in speech. “You can kiss what your employees tell you, even when it’s surprising, even when you don’t agree.”
Vance also met the AFD leader Alice Weidel on Friday. He met German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier separately; Friedrich Merz, the leader of the Party of the Christian Democratic Union of the Center-Drive; as well as Scholz last week.