The aim is for the group — called the "Patriots of Europe" — to become "the largest right-wing group in European politics," Orbán said.Alexander Hassenstein/Getty Images

Orbán’s Fidesz forming new far-right alliance with Austrian, Czech parties – POLITICO

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Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orbán and his far-right Fidesz party are forming a new political alliance with Austria’s Freedom Party (FPÖ) and the Czech Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (ANO) Movement, with hopes of becoming a new group in the European Parliament.

The aim is for the group — called the “Patriots of Europe” — to become “the largest right-wing group in European politics,” Orbán said at a press conference in Vienna Sunday, alongside ANO leader and former Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš and FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl. 

The announcement signified a “new era of European politics,” Kickl said, predicting that the “patriotic” alliance would be joined by other parties.