A coalition of Green Party leaders from European countries implored US Green Party leader, Dr. Jill Stein, to drop out of the presidential race and support the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris.
Green Party leaders from Germany, France, Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, Estonia, Belgium, Spain, Poland and Ukraine, among other nations, wrote an open letter on Nov. 1 in which they stated that Vice President Kamala Harris was the only candidate who could prevent a Trump victory.
"The stakes of these elections could not be higher," they wrote. "We are clear that [Democratic Vice President] Kamala Harris is the only candidate who can block Donald Trump and his anti-democratic, authoritarian policies from the White House."
"The US Greens are no longer a member of the global organisation of Green parties," they continued. "In part, this fissure resulted from their relationship with parties with authoritarian leaders, and serious policy differences on key issues including Russia's full scale assault on Ukraine."
Stein has run for president in the last four U.S. elections. In 2016, she earned 1.4 million votes. In 2024, she is polling between 1.1% and 1.4%. She is also on the ballot in the majority of swing states, Common Dreams reported.
Other prominent left-leaning politicians have been critical of Stein in the past. Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has criticized both Stein and the U.S. Green Party for the inconsistency of their efforts.
"All you do is show up once every four years to speak to people who are justifiably pissed off, but you're just showing up once every four years to do that, you're not serious," Ocasio-Cortez stated on Instagram last month. "To me, it does not read as authentic. It reads as predatory."
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