Le Pen, Salvini to Join Orban’s New Far-Right EU Alliance
- Nationalist parties in France and Italy set to join new group
- Orban announced alliance plan as Hungary assumed EU presidency
Salvini and Marine Le Pen.
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s nascent European Union alliance got a boost of influence Monday, with two major far—right parties — led by France’s Marine Le Pen and Italy’s Matteo Salvini — agreed to join it.
A spokesman for the Hungarian leader, Zoltan Kovacs, announced the moves by Le Pen and Salvini in posts on X Monday, where he said the new grouping of nationalists could become the third largest political alliance in the European Parliament.