Europe Wilders party wants to join EU right-wing alliance around Orban

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's new group of right-wing parties is gaining further support: After the Spanish Vox, the Dutch radical-right party of Geert Wilders now also wants to join. Wilders announced this on X. "We want to join forces and will proudly join the Patriots for Europe", wrote the leader of the Party for Freedom (PVV).

Wilders' party won the parliamentary elections in the Netherlands last November and is now the strongest partner in a far-right government coalition of four parties. In last month's European elections, the PVV won six seats in the EU Parliament.

So far, in addition to Vox, the Austrian FPÖ under party leader Herbert Kickl, the liberal-populist Czech ANO and the Portuguese Chega have also announced their intention to join the new far-right group. With Wilders' announcement, the new group would have MEPs from six countries - membership of MEPs from at least seven countries is required for group status in the European Parliament.

SDA