Rightwing League party leader Matteo
Salvini sees eye to eye with France's National Rally (RN) leader
Marine Le Pen after RN said it would no longer sit alongside
Alternative for Germany (AfD) in the European Parliament's
Identity and Democracy (ID) caucus, the League said Tuesday.
"As always, Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen are perfectly
aligned and in agreement," on the move, it said.
In breaking with AfD, RN cited statements on rehabilitating Nazi
SS soldiers.
AfD has also taken other controversial far-right stances
recently.
Le Pen is currently ahead of President Emmanuel Macron in the
race to become the next French president.
She attended a rally last Sunday in Madrid hosted by Vox, which
is in the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) caucus
alongside Premier Giorgia Meloni's Breothers of Italy (FdI)
party, Poland's Law and Justice party and other rightwing
parties.
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