The president of Vox, Santiago Abascalwas proclaimed president of the party this Saturday Patriotswhich is reflected in the European Parliament in the Patriots Group (Patriots for Europe), the third largest in the European Parliamentand which also includes the formations led by the Hungarian Viktor Orban and the french Marine Le Pen.
This formation (Patriots Party) brings together formations from 11 European countries and has 86 deputies in the Community Parliament, representing more than 19 million Europeans, being the third group behind the European People’s Party and the S&D Socialist Group.
The parliamentary group was born after the European elections last June from an alliance between Fidesz, the formation of the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán; the far-right Freedom Party of Austria (FPO) and the Czech populist Alliance of Disaffected Citizens. Also part of this alliance the French National Group of Marine Le Penwho has been, like Orban, at the Paris meeting in which Abascal was elected president.
As explained by Vox through a statement, the Patriots group is configured as a fundamental political actor on the stage European and the party faces the challenge of consolidating that alternative majority to the traditional coalition of socialists and popular ones.
“Not in vain,” Vox highlights, “four of the parties integrated into Patriots are the winners of the European elections in four Member States: France, Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic“.
The Spanish formation emphasizes that Abascal maintains an “excellent relationship” with other parties and leaders of the American continent which, in his opinion, “will greatly facilitate the lines of common work in defense of the sovereignty and prosperity of nations, mutual respect and the defense of freedom.”