German Far-Right Lawmaker Steps Aside After Latest Scandal
- Krah resigns from leadership committee, will stop campaigning
- RN party of France’s Marine Le Pen ends cooperation with AfD
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The Alternative for Germany’s lead candidate in next month’s European Parliament elections quit the far-right party’s leadership committee following a string of scandals and said he won’t take part in any more campaign events.
In the latest misstep, Maximilian Krah was quoted last week by Italian newspaper la Repubblica as saying that not all members of the Nazi SS paramilitary organization were criminals. The comments prompted the party of French far-right politician Marine Le Pen to break off ties with the AfD, which belongs to the same group as her National Rally in the EU legislature.