The European People’s Party does not know what to do with the far right

The waltz-hesitation ended in an argument. The European People’s Party (EPP) is unable to agree on a common position in the face of the rise of the far right. He knows that the latter is siphoning off part of his electorate, he debates on the means of stopping the bleeding, and wonders at the same time whether agreements with extremists are the best long-term option or whether they represent a risk, both for democracy and for its own political survival.

Until a few months ago, the official Conservative line was: to unite with the far right or accept its support was “a capitulation”. When Alberto Núñez Feijóo rose to the head of the People’s Party (PP, conservative) in Spain and he accepted that his party join forces with Vox in the autonomous region of Castile and León, Donald Tusk, then leader of the European conservatives, former Polish Prime Minister and former President of the European Council, was ruthless:

“For me, it was a sad surprise. [L’ancien président du PP espagnol] Pablo Casado was a personal guarantee to keep the People’s Party in the center right, avoiding this type of flirtation with the extremes, with extreme right movements like Vox.”

Tusk, whose party belongs to the conservative family and who in Poland is in opposition to Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s PiS, has always expressly opposed any agreement with the far right. But Tusk left, and instead the right appointed as leader, on May 31, his spokesperson in the European Parliament, the Bavarian Manfred Weber, a man of compromise.

“Italy is Italy”

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Idafe Martin Perez

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