{"id":376458,"date":"2024-07-08T18:31:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T16:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/07\/08\/patrioti-per-leuropa-parlamento-ue\/"},"modified":"2024-07-12T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-12T11:32:12","slug":"the-patriots-for-europe-group-springs-up-in-the-eu-parliament-it-is-the-third-largest-the-league-is-also-a-part","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/07\/08\/the-patriots-for-europe-group-springs-up-in-the-eu-parliament-it-is-the-third-largest-the-league-is-also-a-part\/","title":{"rendered":"The Patriots for Europe group springs up in the EU Parliament. It is the third largest, the League is also a part"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – It is the end of Identity and Democracy and\u00a0the beginning\u00a0of Patriots for Europe<\/strong>. The new far-right group in the European Parliament established today has already become the third largest by number of members<\/strong>, surpassing on the day of its constitution\u00a0the Liberals of Renew Europe (76) and the European Conservatives and Reformists (78), behind only the Populars (188) and the Social Democrats (136). The political creature of the Hungarian Prime Minister,\u00a0Viktor Orb\u00e1n<\/strong>, as of today (July 8), can rely on 84 members of 14 national parties<\/strong> from 12 member countries, including Italy. It will be the League<\/strong> that will represent it, with newly elected<\/a> Roberto Vannacci among the six Vice-Presidents<\/strong> behind the first President of Patriots for Europe<\/strong>, the leader of France’s sovereignist right-wing Rassemblement National, Jordan Bardella<\/strong>, who last night (July 7)\u00a0saw<\/a> the chance to become the new head of the French government fade away and will now remain in Brussels to lead the Sovereignist front.<\/p>\n

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From left: former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and leader of ANO 2011, Andrej Babi\u0161, Austrian Freedom Party (Fp\u00f6) President Herbert Kickl, and the Prime Minister of Hungary, Viktor Orb\u00e1n (June 30, 2024)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The constitutive meeting of\u00a0Patriots for Europe<\/a>, held this afternoon in an EU Parliament chamber (both Bardella and Vannacci were absent), formalized\u00a0what became clear<\/a>\u00a0in the last week: the end of the experience of the Identity and Democracy Group<\/strong>–born after the 2019 elections from the ashes of Europe of Nations and Freedom– with the exit of all its members and the entry<\/strong> (with the exception only of the Czech MEP from Freedom and Direct Democracy) into the new Sovereignist formation<\/strong>: the 30 French members of the National Rally, the 8 Italians of Leagie, the 2 Portuguese members of Chega, the 6 Dutch members of the Party for Freedom (PVV), the 3 Belgians of Vlaams Belang, and the Danish People’s Party member. In addition to the elected members of the three founding parties <\/a>– the 10 Hungarians of Fidesz (first among the non-aligned), the 7 Czechs of ANO 2011 (formerly of Renew Europe<\/a>), and the 6 Austrians of the Austrian Freedom Party (the first to leave ID) – there are also the 6 Spaniards of Vox (who exited the ECR<\/a> were decisive for\u00a0Patriots for Europe tp overtake the conservative right-wing group), the Hungarian Gy\u00f6rgy H\u00f6lv\u00e9nyi <\/strong>of the Christian Democratic People’s Party (formerly of the EPP and close ally of Orb\u00e1n<\/a>) the newly elected so far without parliamentary group membership: the Czechs of Oath and Motorists (2), the Greeks of Voice of Reason (1) and First Latvia (1).<\/p>\n