Orban creates his own alliance in the European Parliament (video)

Hungary is preparing to take over the presidency of the Council for the next 6 months EUand Viktor Orban plans to expand his influence in Brussels and Strasbourg.

Hungarians form their own faction in the European Parliament with the far right from the Czech Republic and Austria, writes euronews. Orbán came to Vienna to sign a “patriotic manifesto” with Eurosceptic partners who want to create a group in the EP different from ID and ECR and invite other parties to join the project.

The Hungarian prime minister launches the Patriotic Alliance in Vienna with Herbert Kickl, leader of the far-right Austrian Freedom Party, and Czech media mogul Andrej Babis of the populist movement ANO 2011. In the recent elections to the European Parliament, they all won in their countries. The main goal of the negotiations is to create a separate faction in the European Parliament that will fight “the Brussels establishment, which does not understand the wishes of the voters.”

The “patriotic manifesto for a European future” signed by the three party leaders condemns the alleged plans to create a “European centralized state.” Europeans need three things: peace, order and development. And what they are getting from the elite in Brussels today is war, migration and stagnation. Orban said:

“We will form a new political force, which will soon become the largest right-wing formation in the European Parliament.”

The Hungarian Prime Minister added that partners in the new alliance oppose “war, migration, inflation and the green deal”:

“Our goal – and we believe this will happen – is that in a short time this will be the strongest right-wing group in the European Parliament.”

To create a group in the European Parliament, it is necessary to unite parties from at least seven countries. At a meeting in Vienna on Sunday, it was announced that the full composition of the alliance's members would be announced later.

Viktor Orban's Fidesz party was expelled from the ruling European People's Party in the previous term. After the June European elections, a rapprochement with the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) was expected, but Giorgia Meloni put forward a condition that was unacceptable to Orban: to commit to supporting Ukraine.

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