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he far-right is ready to run jointly in the European elections, but only up to a certain point. At a press conference in Strasbourg, anti-EU MEPs, Marine Le Pen, Franz Obermayr and Philip Claeys, announced they would not choose a common candidate for the European elections.Under the umbrella of the European Alliance for Freedom, the French National Front (FN), the Austrian Party for Liberty (FPÖ) and the Belgian Vlaams Belang (VB) hope to lay the foundations for the creation of a far-right grouping at the EU level.
"We thought about the possibility of presenting a candidate for the European elections," MEP Franz Obermayr from the FPÖ admitted at the press conference, saying there was no lack of "charismatic leaders" in far-right parties in Europe, such as Marine Le Pen in France and Dutch Geert Wilders in the Netherlands.
However, "we will not do it for democratic reasons," the Austrian MEP claimed.
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