Fidesz party combines with Austria’s Freedom Party and Czech ANO protest group as Hungary assumes six-month EU presidency
Hungary 's prime minister Viktor Orban and Herbert Kickl, chairman of the Austria 's Freedom Party. Photograph: Tobias Steinmaurer/AFP via Getty ImagesTwo weeks before a deadline to register new parliamentary groups, Mr Orban’s Fidesz party has thrown in its lot withAnnouncing the plan, Mr Orban complained that European citizens’ hopes for peace, order and development” were being snubbed by “the current Brussels elite” and their politics of “war, migration and stagnation”.
Meanwhile the Babis party, a self-described alliance of dissatisfied citizens, also topped the Czech European elections with 26 per cent of the vote. On Monday, Portugal’s far-right Chega party said its two MEPs would join the new grouping. In an online video, Chega leader Andre Ventura said the new alliance would tackle the spread of “socialism, communism and globalism” at EU level.
The ECR will have to do without the Czech ANO while the ID group, without Austria’s FPO, remains dominated byStill short three parties, eyes shift now to Germany’s Alternative for Germany . Its MEPs were expelled last month from the ID grouping over corruption allegations and controversial remarks involving its European lead candidates.
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