Eurodroite
Sign in to saveEurodroite (; ) was a far-right European political alliance that took part in the 1979 European Parliament election. It did not register as a European political party or a political group of the European Parliament because it only had four seats, all held by the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement. The Group of the European Right became its formal successor following the 1984 European Parliament election.
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Eurodroite (; ) was a far-right European political alliance that took part in the 1979 European Parliament election. It did not register as a European political party or a political group of the European Parliament because it only had four seats, all held by the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement. The Group of the European Right became its formal successor following the 1984 European Parliament election.
== History == Giorgio Almirante, the president of the neo-fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), envisioned to create an alliance of far-right political parties from Europe. Almirante said that the objective of the alliance would be to "prevent the European Parliament shifting to the left" and that it would be strongly anti-communist. At the founding congress of Eurodroite on 19 April 1978, Almirante's MSI was also joined by the French Party of New Forces (PFN) of Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour and New Force (FN) of Blas Piñar.
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