Germany’s progressive parties bear significant responsibility for the historic surge in support for the far-right AfD in Sunday’s state elections in eastern Germany, Manon Aubry, the French co-chair of the Left Group in the European Parliament, told Euractiv in an interview on Monday (2 September).
By contrast, she said, the unexpected victory of the French left in July’s snap parliamentary elections shows that “any time that the left stayed strong in its values, strong in its ambitions, we defeat the far right”.
The French structure for voting with two rounds allowed to play things in a tactical way by retreating some candidates in some areas to give voters more chance to vote successfully against the Le Pen party. This was not the case in Germany.
The French structure for voting with two rounds allowed to play things in a tactical way by retreating some candidates in some areas to give voters more chance to vote successfully against the Le Pen party. This was not the case in Germany.