How many right-wing factions will there be in the EU Parliament in the future? The FPÖ with party leader Herbert Kickl wants to put its new alliance ‘Patriots for Europe’ into practice. But for that it needs colleagues from at least four other EU countries. The ID group, to which the FPÖ currently belongs, has postponed its constituent meeting, which was scheduled for Wednesday.
The ID faction will not meet until July 8. After the FPÖ announced on Sunday that it would form a new faction called “Patriots for Europe” together with the Czech ANO and Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Hungarian Fidesz, it was unclear whether the ID faction would continue to exist in its current form.
The EU Parliament meets on 16 July
The three groups alone (FPÖ, Fidesz, ANO) bring together the 23 mandates needed to establish a new parliamentary group. However, you still need colleagues from at least four other EU countries. The EU Parliament will be formally established on 16 July.
Lega is in talks with Kickls Allianz
Italy’s right-wing ruling Lega party, led by Matteo Salvini (currently also a member of ID), says it is in talks about potentially joining the new far-right faction. It is unclear how Marine Le Pen’s French National Rally (RN) will behave. The RN is the largest group of EU members of the ID group so far and hopes to win a majority in the General Assembly in the French parliamentary elections on July 7.
RN must now decide after the French elections
The fact that the constituent meeting of the ID group is now scheduled for July 8 – the day after the elections in France – gives the RN the opportunity to show its colours only after the elections.
Before the EU elections, there were already disputes within the ID group, after the German AfD was excluded from the group at the instigation of the RN. The reason was a Nazi spokesman for their top candidate Maximilian Krah, who was excluded from the new AfD delegation after the elections.
What’s happening with the AfD?
There are currently no plans to integrate the AfD into the new “Patriots for Europe” alliance. “Even if the AfD cannot join a joint parliamentary group with Fidesz at the moment, this opens up new possibilities for the AfD to cooperate with other parties,” Daniel Tapp, spokesman for AfD co-leader Alice Weidel, told the German Press Agency in Berlin. “The AfD would certainly fit perfectly into this group,” the AfD’s federal board said, according to the dpa. The FPÖ and Fidesz are very close to the AfD in terms of content.
Source: Krone
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