“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 a few days before the elections – voters go to the polls on November 5 – and relations between the European Greens and Stein’s party are tense, this plea seems it is unlikely to influence it.

Friday’s statement from the European Greens highlighted the “divergent values ​​and policies” of the European and American Greens, noting that “there is no connection between the two since the American Greens are no longer members of the global organization of green parties”.

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

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