Germany’s leading climate activist group, the far-left Letzte Generation (‘Last Generation’), is to participate in the upcoming European elections. The country’s Federal Election Committee designated the group, along with 34 other parties and political associations, as eligible to receive votes in June.
For any group to be able to stand in these elections, they need 4,000 signatures. On its website, Last Generation, founded in 2021, claims to have collected over 8,800.
These criteria have also been fulfilled by the anti-globalist Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, which has equally been cleared for participation—this while, as extensively reported by The European Conservative, the party faces comprehensive demonization and persecution by a threatened establishment at home.
In stark contrast to the law-abiding AfD, within Germany, Last Generation is notorious for having conducted numerous road blockades (276 in 2022 alone) and vandalized yachts, paintings, buildings, restaurants, and private jets using paint.
In June of last year, Germany’s Federal Interior Ministry revealed that since the beginning of the year, 580 criminal offenses (mainly involving coercion and damage to property) had been committed by the outfit.
Despite this—and while the group came close to being designated a criminal enterprise by the Senate as a result—it has nonetheless been allowed to continue to operate.
Now having seemingly found a second life as a ‘respectable’ political organization, Last Generation for its slogan went with: “Shake up Parliament—Voice of the Last Generation.” In a press release, the group said the elections for the European Parliament were “of particular importance,” since “groundbreaking decisions are made at the EU level.”
Despite ample evidence to the contrary, most strangely, the press release adds that their presence in Brussels “is all the more urgent” in order to counteract the “suppression of the climate catastrophe by the established parties.”
Theodor Schnarr, 33, who is second on the group’s list of candidates, said the group wants to “stir up parliament and raise our voices where false promises are made and life-threatening fairy tales are told.”
However, there is little sign that the group has abandoned its old ways.
“Instead of the usual search for votes,” it continues, Last Generation will go on to engage in acts of resistance, such as unspecified “disruptive actions.” Its election campaign will also be “unconventional,” in that “a creative use of election posters” is planned.
At the time of writing, the group has raised over €33,000 in donations for its election campaign.
It remains to be seen whether, should one (or more) of its candidates ever grace the European Parliament with their presence, we will be treated to the sight of MEPs gluing themselves to their seats in protest.
