Far-right snipers in the European Union could create a new far-right group in the European Parliament. Ultranationalism, Euroscepticism and pro-Russian sympathies would become the common ground of this gathering. MEPs from certain Central European countries could be tempted by the experience.
Far-right parties are preparing to overcome their political fragmentation. Germany’s AfD will need a new European parliamentary family after its expulsion from the ultraconservative Identity and Democracy group.
Other parties could be tempted to join the new far-right group Alternative, reports the Euronews Super Poll.
The European rights are clearly divided by political incompatibilities and different interests. Steven Van Hecke, professor of European politics at KU Leuven, explains why a single far-right group is unlikely to run in the next EU legislature:
“A number of far-right parties are on the path to radicalization. I don’t think they will all come together after the elections. We would prefer to see not one, but three political groups instead of two. is also the reason why Marine Le Pen recently made it known that she wanted to have a clear position, a clear distance from the AfD.
The AfD was expelled during the current European election campaign at the call of Marine Le Pen, leader of the ID group, after declarations of sympathy for the waffen Retired SS of its former list leader, Maximilian Krah.
The AfD has also been accused of supporting Russian influence actions and a Chinese espionage affair.
The Euronews super poll predicts that there will be enough seats needed to create a far-right group.
From a simple arithmetic point of view, with the need to have at least 23 MEPs from at least seven different member states, the margin for error is practically non-existent thanks to the support of the AfD in Germany, which could obtain 15 seats.
According to the Euronews polling center, the Bulgarian Awakening party contacted the AfD leaders after their expulsion from the ID.
In addition to the AFD, the projections concern Polish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Hungarian (Fatherland Party) and Slovak MEPs.
The common point between these maverick parties could be their pro-Russian political approach.
If created, the new far-right group will have the opportunity to place itself in the spotlight of political and media attention in the next five years, since the Ukrainian question will inevitably be one of the most relevant to the next EU legislature.
Another EU parliamentary group likely to sympathize with Russia is expected to sit on the far-left benches of the European Parliament. This is the group of Left Sovereignists, also the result of the German political candidacy of the Sahra Wagenknecht Rally(BSW).
Sahra Wagenknecht is a dissident from Die Linke, the historic group of the German left in the European Parliament. His faction will leave this group and create another. Also in this case, sovereignist leftists from all over Europe should have enough seats to gather.