Salvini “loses” Finland: the far-right party passed Meloni

“The Finnish elections affirm the growth of the League’s allies as the Left loses votes, seats and majority”. It’s been just three days since Carroccio entrusted his happiness to a press release with good election approval from the Finns Party. An extreme right-wing formation that is very likely to be part of the new government in Helsinki. After all, the party led by Riikka Purra was until yesterday one of Matteo Salvini’s allies in the European Parliament and shares its associate membership in the Identity group. and Democracy (ID) Until yesterday, to be precise, because Purra and his men have recently bid farewell to Id, announcing that they have joined the ECR, the group of European conservatives led by Giorgia Meloni.

The election is somehow linked to the possibility of moving from the “fighting party” to the “government party”. At this historic moment, a transition that needs maximum clarity at one point: Finland’s accession to NATO and abandonment of its historic neutrality towards Russia. It is not surprising that the Finnish Party’s announcement came just after Helsinki officially joined the Atlantic Alliance. Purra now wants to shed the shadow of ties with pro-Russian circles and show that he is ready to take international positions in the executive. Shadows that continue to weigh on identity and democracy instead.

The “radical change in Finland’s security policy” caused by Russia’s war against Ukraine has prompted the party to “re-examine international cooperation networks”, the Finns Party said in a statement. For this, the party leadership “unanimously decided” to join a group whose “member parties are united by the uncompromising defense of Western civilization and the architecture of European security policy”; Member of the ECR group”.

For the Finnish Party, this means a return to the conservatives’ home: in fact, until 2019 they were part of the ECR. The alliance with Id did not last long and marks another point in Meloni’s favor in the very good European rivalry between the so-called sovereigns led by the League and Marine Le Pen and the conservatives who see it on the axis. The Brothers of Italy and the Polish Piss (for a time he was strictly under the command of the Warsaw government).

Today, in the European Parliament, the two groups have nearly the same number of seats, and both sit in opposition to a majority of EPP (center-right), Socialists and Democrats (center-left), and liberals (which includes them). Calenda and Renzi). . The next EU elections are scheduled for May 2024, and national polls show the ECR patrol growing, so much so that there are those suggesting a possible historic alliance between the EPP and conservatives that will push the centre-left opposition. .

For this to happen, in addition to the number of the Eurochamber, it is necessary (if not above all) to increase the weight of the ECR in the Council of Member States. Conservatives today can count on the leaders of the governments of Italy, Poland and the Czech Republic. Then there’s Sweden with the Sweden Democrats, who are actually in the majority supporting the Stockholm government. The ECR could also benefit from Finland if Petteri Orpo, leader of the Finnish centre-right and poll winner, signs an alliance with Purra. At this point, the EU’s control room may be closer for European conservatives.

Source: Today IT

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