They haven’t got France, but there’s still Europe. Le Pen’s party, National Rally joins the ultra group of the Hungarian Viktor Orbán“Patriots for Europe”, in the European Parliament. Vox, which has abandoned Meloni, and Salvini’s League have also joined this far-right bloc. The group would be the third political force in the European Parliament and will be chaired by the leader of Le Pen’s party, Jordan Bardella, who assessed the result of the elections as such.

The new parliamentary group, initially promoted by Fidesz, the Austrian FPÖ and the Czech ANO, will have as its main delegation the 30 French MEPs of RN, which almost triple the 11 Hungarians in the party Orbán, and announced their incorporation this morning after emerging as the third bloc in the second round of the French legislative elections this Sunday.

In total, the Patriots They will initially be composed of 84 MEPs from 13 parties: 30 from the French RN, 11 from Fidesz, 8 from the Italian Lega, 7 from the Czech ANO, 6 from Vox, 6 from the Dutch PVV, 6 from the Austrian FPÖ, 3 from the Belgian Vlaams Belang, 2 from the Portuguese Chega!, 2 from the Czech United Bikers, one from the Greek Voice of Reason, one from the Latvian First Party and one from the Danish People’s Party.

In this way, they temporarily position themselves as the third group in the European Parliament, ahead of the 78 seats of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR, where Giorgia Meloni’s Brothers of Italy are located) and the 76 from Renew Europe, the liberals who had traditionally held the third place in number of MEPs and will now be the fifth force.

“It is not impossible for this group to expand further.“We are here to ensure that we can counter, with all our might, the evolution of the policy of the European Parliament and the European institutions,” said Jean-Paul Garraud, head of the parliamentary delegation of the French National Rally, at a press conference.