Ventura defends Chega’s membership in a new European group that includes Órban’s party
The president of Chega stated that he “welcomes” his party’s integration into the new European Parliament group that is being formed by nationalist parties led by the Hungarian prime minister.
At a press conference in Lisbon, André Ventura was in favor of this accession to unite the European right and announced that he will promote a meeting of Chega’s National Directorate on Tuesday , so that an expanded National Council of the party can be convened to discuss integration into Viktor Órban’s group.
André Ventura was confident that in the next few hours or within days new populist right-wing parties will join this new group in the European Parliamentjust as he expressed his conviction in a victory for the extreme right in today’s French legislative elections.
This Sunday, in Vienna, the leaders of three major populist and nationalist parties in Hungary, Austria and the Czech Republic, led by the ultraconservative Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, announced the creation of a new group in Parliament European.
“The objective is for this group to soon be the strongest right-wing group in the European Parliament,” said the Hungarian leader, whose country assumes the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union on Monday.
The new faction, which still needs the support of at least four other parties, will be called “Patriots for Europe” and the three founding groups are the ruling Hungarian party Fidesz, the liberal Austrian party FPÖ in opposition, and the Czech opposition party “Alliance of Discontented Citizens” ( YEAR).
The three parties, which focus their policies on controlling immigration in Europe, were the winners of the recent European elections in their respective countries.
In addition to a restrictive migration policy, the three defend the lifting of the future European ban on cars with combustion engines, as well as the review of the so-called “new green deal” for transformation the ecological of the European economy.
Along with Orbán, the so-called “patriotic manifesto” was signed by the leader of the FPÖ, Herbert Kickl, and the leader of ANO and former Czech prime minister, the tycoon Andrej Babis.
The three highlighted that the objective is for their announcement to become a “rocket” to motivate other European formations to join their cause.
The three parties gathered today have 24 MEPs, one more than the minimum of 23 to create a group in the European Parliament, although they still need to bring together at least four other parties to formalize this parliamentary alliance.
Kickl, who leads polls in Austria with 27% of the vote ahead of the general elections on September 29, stressed that, from now on, “all political forces that wish to be included in this positive effort to reform will be welcome”.
“From what I’ve heard in recent days, there will be more support than some probably imagine at this point,” said the leader of the Austrian far right, without giving further details.
