Towards new structures of the right-wing European Parties

Translated by Alessandra Fumagalli 

The results of the European Elections is confirmed, testifying the staggering growth of the conservative and right-wing parties in all EU countries.

Something that has predicted what would have happened with the French elections, which have indeed showed a rapid advance of the Rassemblement National of Marine Le Pen.

Despite the results, however, conservative and euro-skeptical parties were not able to force themselves as they hoped during the negotiations for the designation of the so called top jobs, the key positions at an European level, where the agreement of the closing coalition was extremely important, which are made up by populars, socialists and liberals.

A choice that flared up the representatives of the European right-wing parties, who accused their opponents and the European summit of making a short-sighted politics, that doesn’t take into account the popular mandate of the European citizens during the last elections.

These were followed by actions, like what Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, also president of the political group of the European Conservatives, who abstained from voting Ursula von der Leyen, and voting against Costa and Kallas, respectively the new Presidente of the European Council and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs[1].

These dynamics, however, seem to have created a divide among the European right-wing parties, bringing to a mixture of the politics structures.

The most evident aspect is the ascent of Orban, as new representative of the right-wing parties, as it was showed by his political strength that, before and after the elections, brought him to a strict discussion with some conservative’s leaders, being part of both Identity and Democracy Group, and the European Conservatives and Reformists Group.

Even before the elections, there was a clear approach between Orban, whose party, Fidesz, didn’t belong to any groups, and Mateusz Morawiecki, Polish leader of Law and Justice, who was placed with the Conservatives; after the election, something changed.

Someone said that there was a new setting, that would have assumed a particular form, with a territorial transversality that would have involved East Europe Parties in a new block recalling the Visegrad, whose name was Central Eastern Europe[2]. However, this plan was replaces by a more important one, whose aim is to absorb the parties which now belong to ECR and ID.

OnJune, 30th, during the official establishment, beyond Fidesz’s founders of Viktor Orbán, Freedom Parti of Austria (FPÖ) of Herbert Kickl and ANO, a political group of Andrej Babis, someone thought that also Matteo Salvini would have joined the association, that would be joined also by the Rassemblement National of Marine Le Pen after the European Election. It will be interesting understanding what will ECR compounds like PIS and VOX do, whose adhesion could deeply change the balances between the alliances, putting Giorgia Meloni in a very difficult position, because she would be isolated after the political ascent of the last few months, that had guaranteed her a strong political leadership[3].

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