French far-right leader Marine Le Pen said on Sunday (May 5) that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party and Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party were welcome to join the opposition, eurosceptic alliance she seeks to build with Matteo Salvini's anti-immigrant League after the next European election.
Speaking at a news conference organised by the Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang, Le Pen said the idea of a new pan-national group within the EU's parliamentary body was gaining momentum.
She said it would be 'all the better' if Orban agreed to join her group, citing the differences of views he had expressed with his group, the European People's Party (EPP).
The EPP, Europe's main centre-right political force in the EU Parliament, decided on March 20 to suspend Orban's Fidesz party until further notice amid concerns that it violated EU principles on the rule of law over its anti-immigration campaigns and controversial changes to the judicial system.
Autor: gf / Źródło: TVN24 News in English, Reuters