VIENNA – The head of Vienna's Jewish community is urging that a far-right politician running for EU parliament withdraw his candidacy over his suggestion that Hitler's rule was more liberal than the European Union.
Oskar Deutsch demanded that Andreas Moelzer drop out for saying that the European Union is a dictatorship that makes the Third Reich look "possibly ... liberal." Moelzer spoke last month but his comments were reported only recently.
Deutsch said Monday that "such people cannot represent Austria" in the EU parliament.
Moelzer says he only meant to point to EU over-regulation.
Moelzer is on the far-right fringe of his FPO party, which has made huge gains over recent years with a strongly Eurosceptic, anti-corruption and anti-foreigner message. It now regularly polls as the most popular of all Austrian parties.
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