Saturday, April 01, 2017

#GERMANY: Co-Leader Of Anti-Refugee Party Openly Muses About Quitting Politics

[world politics news]


Frauke Petry has become the face of a growing political movement in Germany. But only months before a national election, the co-leader of the Alternative For Germany Party, has openly said that she is considering quitting politics. “Neither politics nor the AfD are things that I can’t do without," she said. Petry told a newspaper that it makes sense from time to time to consider “re-calibrating” one’s life. The AfD was founded as an anti-Euro party in 2013, but lurched to the right two years later, taking a staunchly anti-immigration stance during the refugee crisis of 2015.

[FULL STORY HERE]

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