Eurodroite
Eurodroite was a European association of right-wing extremist parties. It was founded in 1978 at the instigation of Giorgio Almirante , President of the Italian Movimento sociale italiano (MSI).
Members
country | Political party | Party leader |
---|---|---|
Belgium | Forces Nouvelles | Pieter Kerstens |
France | Parti des forces nouvelles | Pascal Gauchon , Roland Gaucher |
Center national des indépendants et paysans | Philippe Malaud | |
Italy | Movimento Sociale Italiano - Destra Nazionale | Giorgio Almirante |
Spain | Fuerza Nueva | Blow piñar |
The Danish Fremskridtspartiet was also courted by Almirante, but this refused to join the association.
European elections 1979
The association took part in the 1979 European elections , but only the MSI was able to move into the European Parliament with 5.45% of the vote and four seats . In France , Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour was the leader of the Union française pour l'eurodroite list . The list received 1.31% of the vote and failed to make it into the European Parliament. Philippe Malaud had meanwhile left the Eurodroite and started with his own list (UDIP - FIDES, 1.40%). The Forces Nouvelles did not enter, Spain was not yet a member of the EC .
resolution
Since Eurodroite only had four Italian MEPs, the planned establishment of a political group in the European Parliament did not materialize. In 1982 the MSI moved closer to the French Front National , with which it founded the Group of the European Right after the European elections in 1984 .
swell
- Pascal Delwit, Philippe Poirier (2007): Extrême-droite et pouvoir en Europe, Bruxelles, Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles. (PDF)
- Dimitri Almeida (2010): Europeanized Eurosceptics? Radical Right Parties and European Integration .Perspectives On European Politics And Society Vol. 11, Iss. 3.