‘WE ARE THE MAINSTREAM’: Surging ‘Patriots for Europe’ Group Meet in Madrid
Orbán, Le Pen, Wilders, Salvini and Other Rightwing Leaders Vow to ‘Make Europe Great Again’
Even though the EU liberal establishment did whatever it could to thwart the surging rightwing parties, going as far as cancelling the election in Romania, 2024 was the year where we saw the continental right become a formidable force that is fighting for power all over Europe.
Today (8), in the Spanish capital Madrid, a rally turned into a show of force of the EU parliament’s biggest rightwing bloc ‘Patriots for Europe’.
The group adopted the slogan “Make Europe Great Again”, a nod to US President Donald J. Trump’s leadership.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and France’s Marine Le Pen headlined the Madrid rally calling for ‘a 180-degree pivot’.
‘Patriots for Europe’ has become the European Parliament’s third-largest force – and it’s rising fast.
France24 reported:
“’Yesterday we were the heretics. Today we are the mainstream… We are the future’, proclaimed Orban, sharing the stage with other leading extreme-right nationalists including Dutch anti-Islam firebrand Geert Wilders, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and former Czech premier Andrej Babis.