“Europe does not want to be left
to Macron, Von der Leyen or some left-wing experiment.”
Authored by Dénes Albert: Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ), Czechia’s ANO, and Hungary’s Fidesz have formed a new right-wing coalition, the parties’ respective leaders announced at a joint press conference in Vienna on Sunday.
Herbert Kickl (FPÖ), Andrej Babis (ANO) and Viktor Orbán (Fidesz) announce new right-wing coalition in Vienna. (Facebook)
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, former Czech Prime Minister
Andrej Babiš, and Austrian opposition leader Herbert Kickl said the new
alliance would hopefully entice others to join and become the largest
nationalist political group in the European Parliament.
“Today
we are creating a political formation that will ‘forge ahead’ and very
quickly become the strongest grouping and largest faction of the
European right,” Orbán said.
The Hungarian prime minister expects this to happen within days, and then the “sky will be the limit.”
Orbán pointed out that the situation in Europe is clear, that European politics must change and change is needed in Europe.
He
underlined that in 20 of the 27 EU member states, parties that promised
change to the citizens won the European Parliament elections.