Monday - 24th September 2012
European Action: Liechtenstein National Leader resigns
VADUZ - The pressure that the [Liechtensteiner] government and Parliament applied last Thursday has had its effect. In an e-mail that the „Volksblatt“ received this evening, National Leader Oliver Hasler has abruptly decided to distance himself from European Action.
“I have made the decision to declare the withdrawal as National Leader of Liechtenstein and all other offices of European Action (Europäischen Aktion). As a young man at the beginning of my career I want to deny the opinion dictators the opportunity to destroy my personal existence”, writes Hasler.
In a telephone conversation that evening Oliver Hasler confirmed to “Volksblatt.li" that he was indeed the author of the email letter. Hasler lamented the fact that in accordance with the claims of Member of Parliament Harry Quaderer laws will be adopted in Liechtenstein with the purpose of “removing persons with nationalist ideals from the political process”. This is in his opinion a “highly dubious interpretation of political pluralism which reveals the lack of democracy of present times”. Hasler emphasized that he fully agrees with the government to adopt a zero-tolerance policy against the far right and politically-motivated perpetrators of violence. “This I can emphasize because I dissociate myself from any accusations of right-wing extremism, racism and xenophobia.”
Last Thursday Interior Minister Hugo Quaderer stated: “The fact that a Liechtensteiner as the National Leader of a far right group such as EA makes a speech abroad together with Holocaust deniers and former Nazis is problematic and disgraceful at the same time. The government also wants to make it quite clear it condemns the incomprehensible blood and soil ideology of this group. Far right-wing ideology has no place in our society."
Source (in the German language)
