The alliance of far-right parties "Patriots for Europe", formed at the initiative of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, managed to gain enough support to qualify to form a parliamentary group in the European Parliament, since the right-wing Flemish party from Belgium joined it as the seventh party, the website reports. A politician.
According to the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament, the condition for the formation of a parliamentary group is that it has at least 23 deputies from seven member states of the European Union.
Even without the Flemish party, Orban had a sufficient number of deputies, but he needed a seventh party to be able to form a club.
In the words of Orbán's spokesman Zoltan Kovac, "'Patriots for Europe' continues to grow with the arrival of the Belgian Flemish Party".
"As right-wing, patriotic and nationalist parties, we stand firmly together," said the president of the Flemish party Vlams Belanga, Tom Van Griken, in a statement. "We have more in common than what divides us".
According to the announcement of the leader of the Spanish party "Vox" Santiago Abascal in an interview for "La Gazeta", his party will join Orban's group and will withdraw from the "European Conservatives and Reformists" parliamentary group of Italian Prime Minister Djordje Meloni.
And Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders said his "Party for Freedom" wants to join "Patriots for Europe" to "protect our Judeo-Christian heritage and our families."
This new alliance includes right-wingers from Hungary, Austria, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands.
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