Austrian MEP Resigns After Racist Outburst, Comparing EU to Nazis
The leading candidate for Austria’s far-right Freedom Party in European elections next month resigned on Tuesday after coming under fire for racist comments and comparing the EU to the Nazis.
Mr Andreas Moelzer unleashed a storm of controversy after Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily reported him telling an event in February that the EU was in danger of becoming a “conglomerate of niggers, where everything is chaos”.
He announced his resignation on Tuesday, but remained defiant, saying that he had done “nothing dishonourable other than to formulate a non-conformist opinion in a politically incorrect manner.”
In a statement to the Austria Press Agency on Tuesday, he said his decision to resign was not due to the “politically correct” media or the “feigned outrage of the political establishment”.
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