The president of Vox, Santiago Abascal, was proclaimed this Saturday as the new president of the Patriots party, which is reflected in the Patriots Group (Patriots for Europe), the third largest in the European Parliament, and which also includes the formations led by the Hungarian Viktor Orbán and the French Marine Le Pen.
This formation (Patriots Party) brings together parties from up to 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.
The French National Group of Marine Le Pen is also part of this alliance, which has been, like Orbán, at the Paris meeting in which Abascal was elected president. As explained by Vox through a statement, the Patriotas group is configured as a fundamental political actor on the European stage.
The party faces the challenge of consolidating this alternative majority against the traditional wing of socialists and popular ones. “Not in vain,” Vox highlights, “four of the parties integrated into Patriotas are the winners of the European elections in four member states: France, Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic.” The Spanish party emphasizes that Abascal maintains an “excellent relationship” with other parties and leaders of the American continent which, in its 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.”
