On Sunday, the deputy head of the right-wing group of European Conservatives and Reformists, Assita Kanko, didn’t rule out cooperation with the European Folks’s Social gathering, which gained the European Parliament elections. She mentioned she didn’t see something that will forestall this cooperation sooner or later.
Kanko belongs to the New Flemish Alliance, a conservative occasion in Belgium that gained the federal elections held there on Sunday along with the European Parliament elections.
Based on the European Parliament’s forecast, the ECR could have 70 seats. ECR additionally consists of Regulation and Justice and the Italian Brothers occasion of Prime Minister Giorgi Meloni. In current months, there was hypothesis about von der Leyen’s potential cooperation with Meloni and her group within the European Parliament.
When requested if her occasion was able to assist the candidacy of the present EC president for a second time period and cooperate with the EPP, Kanko replied: “We’ve labored very nicely over these 5 years, additionally with von der Leyen.” “It is going to rely on this system. However once we have a look at the final 5 years below Mrs. von der Leyen’s management, I don’t see something that will forestall such cooperation sooner or later,” she mentioned.
Kanko additionally referred to the difficulty of the potential becoming a member of of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s occasion – Fidesz – to the ECR, which might open the way in which for her group to turn into the third largest drive within the EP – as a substitute of the liberals from the Renew Europe group.
“Being the most important group doesn’t all the time imply that you’re essentially the most important group, as coalitions in lots of international locations present us. In reality, within the present EP, EKR has already proven top quality of labor and power, though it was not the most important group,” Kanko replied. As she emphasised, this may not be her occasion’s precedence.
Magdalena Cedro from Brussels
