Alliances between European far-right parties are the focus of the speeches of this electoral campaign. The extreme right arrives at these European elections strong and with a speech anti-immigration, eurosceptic and denialist of climate change that unites them. However, there is one thing that separates them and makes them fragmented: Putin.

In France, Marie Le Pen celebrates how polls they consider their party the winner. “We are winning the battle. Throughout Europe, national parties are rising up,” said the woman who leads Identity and Democracy.

In front of her, another woman, Giorgia Meloniwho is leader of the Conservatives and Reformists, which Von der Leyen considers the extreme right “good”“. “We will offer to work together,” said the president of the European Commission. Along the same lines, Feijóo has defended that it does not seem “compatible with other parties that are considered extreme right in Europe.”

In this sense, Moisés Ruiz, an expert in Leadership and Communication at the European University, points out that “it will have an impact on national territories,” and that “Feijóo is not going to mark so many distances with Voxbut it will build bridges”.

But what really differentiates one group from another? Ruiz points out that what “makes them converge is their rejection of immigration and certain gender policies.

Points in common

In common they have the anti-abortion and anti-LGTBI proclamations, criticism of the ecological transition, direct confrontation with immigration and Eurosceptic messages. “They question determining aspects, such as the supremacy of community law, or demanding the return of powers to the national level,” emphasizes Professor Victoria Rodríguez.

The big difference is in your stance on the war in Ukraine: While Meloni has openly criticized Putin and has traveled to Kyiv, Le Pen has been more ambiguous and has criticized the possible enlargement of the Union.

The parties led by these two women are those that, according to surveys, They play for third place in Europe. “There is going to be a loss of the weight of the liberals that could allow the promotion of far-right parties,” Victoria Rodríguez emphasizes in this regard. They are divided between pro-Russian or pro-Ukrainian, but what unites the far right is that they are, among other things, anti-abortion, lgtbiphobic, climate change deniers and eurosceptics.