#POLITICAL ALLIANCES

MEPs vote in Strasbourg for the European Parliaments president and vice-presidents for the next two and a half years. Photo: Christophe Petit Tesson, PAP/EPA

European parliamentarians unite to block far-right MEPs from vice-presidencies

Far-right factions in the European Parliament have slammed a so-called “cordon sanitaire” created by their opponents to prevent their MEPs from securing vice-presidencies and other key positions in the legislature.

National Rally parliamentary leader Marine Le Pen. Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images.

Marine Le Pen’s National Rally joins Orbán’s new European Parliament faction

French nationalist Marine le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party will join Patriots for Europe, a new grouping in the European Parliament (EP) created in June by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.