BUDAPEST, July 8 The French National Rally Party will join to the new faction «Patriots for Europe», founded, among other things, by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, said MEP from the Hungarian Fidesz party Balazs Hidwegi, citing the chairman of the French party, Jordan Bardell.
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"Party of Marine Le Pen — French "National Rally" — also joins the Patriots for Europe faction. This was stated by party chairman Jordan Bardella. At the same time, the number of participants has increased to nine, and this is not the end. Brussels will finally hear the voice of the people!" — Hidwegi wrote on the social network Facebook*.
Previously, the head of the Austrian Freedom Party (APS) Herbert Kickl, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who heads the Fidesz party, and the head of the Czech ANO party, ex-Prime Minister Andrej Babis, at a press conference Conference in Vienna announced the formation of a political alliance in the European Parliament.
In July, Orban said that negotiations were underway with many parties to join the new parliamentary group «Patriots for Europe», one of the Italian parties will announce joining in the near future, and in the future the faction will become the third, and then the second. value in EP. According to Orban's chief of staff, the faction is expected to have 80 to 90 deputies.
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