On Saturday, Chancellor Olaf Scholz rejects the Munich Security Conference in german polls afte the President JD Vance told Europe to open paths for far-right parties. Scholz pushed back against Vance’s blistering speech while speaking at the stage of the Conference. It defends Germany’s taboo against including the far right in government coalitions.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz Denies Munich Security Conference
Scholz, whose country holds an election on 23 Feb, said that “we will not accept outsiders intervening in our democracy in elections. That is not right, especially not among allies and friends.” In speech, he state by mentioned the Vance’s that earlier visit to Nazi Germany’s Dachau concentration camp near Munich and US vice president’s commitment to “never again” let the such crimes to be occurs.
The Holocaust crimes was reason “the huge majority of Germans is opposed to those who glorify or justify”, Scholz said. It was something that Germany’s members of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) have done by trivializing Nazi crimes, he said.
What behind the Conference Rejection
After the Scholz Munich Security Conference, he said, “A commitment to ’never again’ cannot be reconciled with support for AfD.” This is why we will not allow outsiders to involve in our democracy in German elections. He further said, “We are clear that the extreme right must stay outside the political decision-making process, and there is no more cooperation with them.” he make these statements when pushed on Vance’s comments in the question and answer session.
On Friday, Vance launched the broadside against Europe and Germany, and accused them of limiting free speech and excluding parties that raise the concerns on immigration. Vance told in the Munich conference that “democracy rests on the sacred principle that matters to people voice.” This clash between the allies comes over a week before the German elections. Currently, Scholz’s centre-left Social Democrats are on third in the polls with 15% of votes.
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