Marine Le Pen, France’s National Front political party head, and Dutch far-right Freedom Party (PVV) leader Geert Wilders (R) address a joint news conference at the European Parliament in Brussels Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters
National Front leader Marine Le Pen pledged today to block any moves to increase European federalism in the European Parliament, as the leader made a triumphant return to Brussels following her party’s election victory in France.
Flanked by four other leaders of far-right parties including Dutch Freedom Party president Geert Wilders, the leader of the National Front said she was confident she would gain support of at least seven parties, the threshold needed to form a political group in the European Parliament. “We will be a united front,” Ms. Le Pen said, describing her emergent group as a “solid cohesive, political and ideological unit.”