Facebook Twitter Pinterest Tomio Okamura, the leader of the Freedom and Direct Democracy party. Both Pretzell and Petry recently left AfD over policy disagreements to join the newly formed Blue Party. Other speakers will include senior figures from Austria’s Freedom party and the Italian Northern League. An earlier version said Marcus Pretzell was an MEP for AfD. He was formerly an MEP for AfD, but is now part of The Blue Party.

Source: The Guardian December 15, 2017 12:10 UTC