European Greens call on Jill Stein to resign in favor of Kamala Harris
In a press release, European environmental parties, including French and German environmentalists, are calling on American Green Party candidate Jill Stein on Friday to withdraw her candidacy from the presidential elections in favor of Kamala Harris.
In this text they write that the election “It’s too tight to be reassuring. “We call on Jill Stein to withdraw from the race and support Kamala Harris for president of the United States.”. “The stakes in these elections could not be higher”they estimate. “Donald Trump promised that if he became president again, he would expand abortion bans, deny members of the LGBTQIA+ community their rights, and deport immigrants en masse”say environmentalists. “It is clear that Kamala Harris is the only candidate who can prevent Donald Trump and his anti-democratic and authoritarian policies from reaching the White House”they add.
In the United States, Democrats fear that the Green Party candidate will undermine their chances of retaining the White House. Jill Stein has her name on the ballot in almost every state capable of influencing the election, with no chance of winning any of them.
In 2016, Republicans won Wisconsin for the first time in nearly three decades. Hillary Clinton then lost this state by just under 23,000 votes to Donald Trump, and some Democrats blamed Jill Stein and her 31,000 votes. An advertising campaign that guarantees that“A vote for Stein is actually a vote for Trump” was recently broadcast by Democrats in Wisconsin, but also in Michigan and Pennsylvania, two other key states.
But this call is unlikely to influence Jill Stein: the European Greens’ statement underlines the “divergent values and policies” The European and American Greens, observing “that there is no link between the two since the American Greens are no longer members of the global organization of green parties”. The statement attributes the ” crack “ to “the relations of the American party with the parties led by [figures] authoritarian regimes and serious political differences on key issues, including Russia’s large-scale attack on Ukraine..
