Tbh I don’t really like either Le Pen or the AFD since they are both the same edgy anti-immigrant lukewarm populist types that also want to keep all the hate speech laws in place and return their respective nations as footstools for the State Department. But the AFD has been a little more promising since they are getting real flack from the German Government on their push to retroactively deport all these brown criminals who are only allowed in Germany because of some document.

Le Pen being a woman is angry that the AFD might be too radical because the European Far right must appease moderates for some reason and is now trying to kick them out of their faction in the EU parliament.

Financial Times

The tropical island of Mayotte seems a million miles away from European politics. But last month it triggered a row that has deepened the rift between two of the EU’s largest far-right parties.

The dispute was caused after Alternative for Germany suggested that France should hand over control of its impoverished overseas department to the neighboring Union of the Comoros.

The AfD said it meant to compare the EU’s unwillingness to recognize independence referendums in the Russian-occupied parts of eastern Ukraine with its acceptance of similar plebiscites in the island nation, where locals have repeatedly voted to remain part of France.

But Marine Le Pen, leader of the French far-right Rassemblement National, who was visiting Mayotte at the time, reacted with fury. 

The AfD “would do better to deal with Germany’s problems”, she said, adding she intended to give her allies “a few lessons in geopolitics”.

Le Pen is going to side with the EU in wanting France to be the nation that is looking after this small Island Nation that is improvised and is probably mass moving to the mainland. France has no business in trying to keep its current colonies or influence in former African colonies since all its doing is making the inhabitants move to France and turning it into North Africa.

The spat was just the latest in a series of contretemps between the RN and the AfD. While they are allies in the European parliament and espouse similar positions against immigration, the two parties have become increasingly estranged in the run-up to next month’s EU elections.

Now, senior members of Le Pen’s party are openly discussing whether to dump their German allies over concerns they have become too extreme.

“I am among those who think that if they [the AfD] are going in a crazy direction, then we should split,” said Renaud Labaye, secretary-general of the RN group in the French parliament.

Asked about the AfD’s view on Mayotte, Louis Aliot, the RN’s vice-president, told TF1 television: “They were allies in the last parliament. We will see if they are in the next one.”

This whole thing is apart of Le Pen’s master plan to deradicalize the party her father founded in the vain hope that she gets into the 48 to 49 range in the next election and not lose to the gay prime minister who might be running in 2027. She is still going to turn it neoconservative despite the French people deciding long ago that they do in fact want to be erased and replaced by brown people.

The AFD meanwhile is embracing that people consider it to be the revival of Nazism despite them being the anti-fascist populist party.

Le Pen has spent a decade seeking to “detoxify” the political movement founded by her father in an effort to win the presidency. Meanwhile, the AfD has shifted conspicuously to the right.

“The populist right parties in Europe want to be seen as respectable, credible, legitimate, and they feel the AfD just aren’t there,” said Simon Hix, professor of politics at the European University Institute in Florence. “For them, the AfD is becoming a poisoned chalice.”

Le Pen’s tactics have included scrapping the party’s old name, the Front National, focusing on the working class and dropping the idea that France should leave the EU. Electorally it has paid off, helping RN win an unprecedented 88 seats in the French parliament in 2022, although she has failed three times to win the presidency.

In contrast, the AfD, which was founded in 2013 by Eurosceptic economists opposed to the Eurozone bailouts, is now dominated by ethno-nationalists who argue Germany should quit the EU.

Honestly W AFD for at least not cucking. Le Pen can just shrivel and rot away as her country becomes North Algeria in the 2030s. But hey at least she got 49% in 2027 if they just cuck a little more we can give them the infiltration government in no time in the Democratic western values way.