Euroright
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Abbreviation | Ed |
President | Giorgio Almirante |
Founder | Giorgio Almirante |
Founded | 19 April 1978 |
Dissolved | 24 July 1984 |
Succeeded by | Group of the European Right (political group) |
Ideology | |
Political position | Far-right |
European Parliament group | Non-Inscrits |
1st European Parliament | 4 / 410 |
Eurodroite (French pronunciation: [øʁɔdʁwat] ; English: Euroright) was a far-right European political alliance that took part in the 1979 European Parliament election. It did not register as a European political party or a political group of the European Parliament because it only had four seats, all held by the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement. The Group of the European Right became its formal successor following the 1984 European Parliament election.
Giorgio Almirante, the president of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), envisioned to create an alliance of far-right political parties from Europe. [1] [2] Almirante said that the objective of the alliance would be to "prevent the European Parliament shifting to the left" and that it would be strongly anti-communist. [1] At the founding congress of Eurodroite on 19 April 1978, Almirante's MSI was also joined by the French Party of New Forces (PFN) of Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour and New Force (FN) of Blas Piñar. [3]
Shortly before the formation of Eurodroite, Tixier-Vignancour was supposed to be a candidate of Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front. [1] Another meeting of the Eurodroite was held on 27 June in Paris, with about two thousand participants, according to the Le Monde diplomatique newspaper. [1] [4] Left-wing organisations held a counter-protest to the meeting in Paris. [4] Le Pen was critical of the Eurodroite project because of the participation of PFN. [1]
In the 1979 European Parliament election, MSI was the only party from the Eurodroite that crossed the threshold, obtaining four seats. It was thus unable to form a group in the European Parliament. [5]
The Eurodroite alliance was succeeded in 1984, when the Group of the European Right was officially formed. [6] FN and the National Political Union (EPEN) of former military dictator Georgios Papadopoulos were members of this new group, while PFN was replaced by Le Pen's National Front. [3]
The Eurodroite was a far-right alliance composed of neo-fascist parties. [7] It opposed the rise of Eurocommunism. [8]
The following parties were members of the Eurodroite alliance. [1] [3] The FN and EPEN did not contest the 1979 election, as Spain and Greece were not yet member states of the European Union. [1] [9]
Country | Name | Ideology | MEPs | ||
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Italy | Italian Social Movement | MSI | Neo-fascism Italian nationalism | 4 / 410 | |
France | Party of New Forces | PFN | Neo-fascism Anti-communism | 0 / 410 | |
Belgium | Party of New Forces | PFN | Neo-fascism Neo-Nazism | 0 / 410 | |
Greece | National Political Union | EPEN | Metaxism Greek nationalism | Not in the EU | |
Spain | New Force | FN | Neo-fascism Francoism | Not in the EU |
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