Europe’s Greens call on Jill Stein to withdraw from US election to prevent Trump’s victory – POLITICO

“Right now, the race for the White House is too close for comfort,” the statement said. “We call on Jill Stein to withdraw from the race and support Kamala Harris for President of the United States.”

But with the election just days away – voters go to the polls on November 5 – and relations between Europe’s Greens and Stein’s party strained, the plea seems unlikely to sway them.

The European Greens’ statement on Friday highlighted the “different values ​​and policies” of the European and US Greens and noted that “there is no connection between the two as the US Greens are no longer a member of the global Green Party organization “.

The statement attributed the “rift” to the American party’s “relationships with parties with authoritarian leaders and serious policy differences on key issues, including Russia’s large-scale attack on Ukraine.”

Stein was criticized for attending a dinner in Moscow sponsored by Russian state television RT in 2015, where she sat at the same table as President Vladimir Putin.