Bardella said that "Patriots for Europe" - "hope for tens of millions of citizens in European nations who value their identity, their sovereignty and their freedom".
He emphasized that they will work together with their partners to take back "our institutions and reorient policies to serve our nations and peoples." writes the BBC.
"Patriotic manifesto for peace, security and development"
The founding of the "Patriots for Europe" alliance was announced in June by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, the president of the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) and the leader of the populist Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO) in the Czech Republic, Andrej Babiš.
Orbán stated that they signed a "patriotic manifesto" and promised "peace, security and development instead of war, migration and stagnation brought about by the Brussels elite".
Photo: AP/Laszlo BaloghHungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Right-wing and far-right parties in 12 European countries, such as Portugal's right-wing Chega party, Spain's Vox party, the Dutch Freedom Party (PVV), the Danish People's Party and the Belgian Flemish nationalist party Flemish Interest (Vlaams Belang ) announced that they will join the "Patriots for Europe" alliance in the next week.
The National Gathering and Italy's right-wing populist League party have already joined the alliance, bringing the group's total number of members to 84.
Most of those parties belonged to the group Identity and Democracy (ID), which has ceased to exist, and with 30 MPs in the EP, Bardella's National Gathering will be the largest party in the "Patriots for Europe" alliance.
That alliance is the third largest in the EP, after the center-right European People's Party (EPP) and the center-left Socialists and Democrats (S&D).
The brothers of Italy and the AfD are not in an alliance
Particularly noticeable is the absence of the Fratelli d'Italia party of Italian Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni, who belongs to the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) alliance, and the German Alternative for Germany (AfD), which became a kind of political homeless after a series of scandals earlier in 2024. year.
According to Reuters members of the "Patriots for Europe" alliance did not allow the AfD to join them.
Photo: AP AfD co-presidents
Tino Krupala and Alice Weidel
At the end of June 2024, a high-ranking AfD official appeared in court for the second time because in December 2023, he knowingly used a Nazi slogan for the second time at a rally in the German federal state of Thuringia.
Bjorn Hoke was previously fined 2024 euros in May 13.000 for previously using the slogan.
At a political meeting, Hoke is, according to the writing Al Jazeera shouted the phrase "all for", prompting people to answer him - Germany.
That motto, "All for Germany," was banned in that country along with other Nazi slogans and symbols because it was used by the infamous Ernst Rehm's Sturmabteilung (SA) paramilitary group, which played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power.
The joining of the Polish party Pravo i Pravda (PiS) to the "Patriots for Europe" alliance was stopped by Orban himself, so the leadership of that party decided to remain in the ECR alliance.
Flemish Interest president Tom Van Grieken said the "right-wing, patriotic and nationalist parties" that make up the "Patriots for Europe" alliance have "more in common than what divides them".
However, the member parties of the "Patriots for Europe" alliance differ in some key areas, especially regarding their stance on NATO and the European Union's support for Ukraine.
Source: BBC, Reuters, Al Jazeera
