During the celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty, this deputy from the far-right AfD party triggered boos from the hemicycle.
controversial statements. In full celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Élysée Treaty, a German deputy, present in the National Assembly this Sunday like his colleagues in the Bundestag for the occasion, drew boos from the hemicycle.
The elected official in question, Norbert Kleinwächter, is a member of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), the far-right German party. In a sequence marked by The HuffPosthe is seen holding anti-abortion statements.
“You are asking for free access to abortion. Each year, we will create a big city of babies who will not have had the right to life”, he denounces, seeming to address the president of the French National Assembly, Yaël Braun-Pivet.
Climate change, “a replacement ideology”
In response to this position, boos resound in the hemicycle. The parliamentarian was not at his first attempt. Earlier, he also made dismaying remarks on ecology, comparing climate change to “a replacement ideology”.
“You will run after replacement ideologies, like climate change. And you know from the colonial experience that Europe is not going to save the world,” he said.
Before adding: “And then there is the experience of mass migration when we see that it is always the same groups that trample on the European spirit during the World Cup, during the famous New Year’s Eve in Germany.”
Remarks not really in the spirit of unity of the Élysée Treaty which “marked the end of decades, if not centuries, of fierce rivalries and bloody wars”, between France and Germany, in the words of Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron in a column published by the daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Sunday newspaper.
