Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and former Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, members of the right-wing ‘national-conservative’ camp, are planning a reshuffle of powers in the European Parliament in an attempt to gain enough leverage in the next term.
Although working with Marine Le Pen is not ruled out, her party’s exact positioning in the new balance remains unclear, while Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will be the ultimate dealmaker.
With June’s EU elections looming and a boosted national-conservative ECR group and far-right ID, Orbán’s party, Fidesz, is considering which faction to join after they left the centre-right EPP in 2021.
“The current structure is not good: national conservative forces are taking the lead in the polls, and they don’t have a proper voice in the European Parliament”, Balázs Orbán, Viktor Orbán’s political director, told Euractiv.
“So we need to create an environment where national conservative forces are much more heard on the European stage as well,” he said, taking a dig at the current formations of ID, ECR and their national delegations, which, he said, became an ineffective counter force to “federalist” parties when the UK and its “sovereigntists” forces left the EU.
Asked by Euractiv if Fidesz would join ECR, his political director answered, “We have many options,” including joining ECR, ID, or forming a new group, not discarding the idea of “written documents” when coalition building....
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