After Tuesday’s press conference between Herbert Kickl (FPÖ) and Germany’s Alice Weidel (AfD), the governing parties ÖVP and the Greens did not give a good impression of the two right-wing party leaders. “Kickl’s right-wing alliance with Weidel is a symbol of the FPÖ’s radical politics,” ÖVP Secretary General Christian Stocker sharply criticized. Eva Blimlinger, the Green Party’s spokeswoman for right-wing extremism, took the same line: “Anyone who invites Weidel is looking for right-wing extremists!”
According to Stocker, both Kickl and Weidel deny the necessity of all life-saving Corona measures, openly seek proximity to the Russian regime and share their “outright hostility towards the Office for the Protection of the Constitution”.
“As Minister of the Interior, Kickl destroyed the Office for the Protection of the Constitution”
‘As the villain thinks, so is he. As Minister of the Interior, Kickl has destroyed the Office for the Protection of the Constitution with brutal party politics and wants to continue doing just that. His plan is apparently to ensure that right-wing extremists are protected and no longer observed by the DSN. “Kickl once again appears to be a security risk for our country,” Stocker emphasized.
Kickl must credibly distance himself from his party friend Weidel’s praise of nuclear energy. “The fact that Weidel uses her invitation to Austria to loudly advocate nuclear power plants makes it clear what Kickl wants for Austria. As a people’s party, that is absolutely impossible for us,” said Stocker.
The AfD is controlled by the German Office for the Protection of the Constitution
Eva Blimlinger, the Green Party’s spokeswoman for right-wing extremism, also sharply criticized the joint events of the FPÖ and the AfD. “By inviting Weidel, the FPÖ is sending a clear signal towards right-wing extremism. At the joint press conference of the two parliamentary faction leaders, conspiracy myths and anti-Semitic stereotypes were deliberately spread.” The AfD, which is controlled by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution in Germany, is not only under scrutiny for anti-constitutional efforts, “but also shows in numerous statements that it is entrenched in right-wing extremism.”
According to Blimlinger, Weidel is the figurehead of right-wing extremists in Germany. “The fact that at the press conference she continues to spread hatred, agitation and the conspiracy myths about so-called ‘self-appointed elites’, which Kickl also fueled, is bad enough. That’s not all: anti-Semitism is also made socially acceptable. Courting them is a clear signal from the FPÖ to right-wing extremism.”
Kickl and Weidel see the FPÖ and AfD as the true protectors of the constitution
Kickl and Weidel called their parties the true protectors of the constitution on Tuesday. The two criticized the fact that the AfD was being monitored by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as anti-democratic. The AfD wants to “seek solidarity with the FPÖ”. Weidel announced that they want to meet the leaders of other European parties in November.
Both also launched an all-out attack on the federal governments in their respective states. These would try to “make people feel guilty about how they think, feel, how they heat, what they eat,” Kickl explains. This is why “confidence in this policy has been lost”.
This is how the extreme right networks in Europe
This right-wing meeting was not an isolated event, because the extreme right in Europe is closely intertwined. What unites them, what separates them and why they are successful. The “Krone” recently wrote an analysis about this.
Source: Krone
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