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The Alliance of European National Movements (AENM) is a European political party that was formed in
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on 24 October 2009 by a number of
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and far-right parties from countries in
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. AENM's founding members were
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(the alliance was established during their sixth party congress), France's National Front, Italy's
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, Sweden's National Democrats and Belgium's National Front. At the end of 2011, Marine Le Pen, the new French National Front leader, resigned from AENM and joined the
European Alliance for Freedom The European Alliance for Freedom (EAF) was a pan- European political party of right-wing Eurosceptics. It was founded in late 2010, the party was recognised by the European Parliament in 2011. It did not seek registration as a political party ...
(EAF). In February 2016, Jobbik cut all of its affiliation with AENM and the president of AENM Béla Kovács left Jobbik.


History

In November 2009, the
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claimed that AENM had been extended to nine parties, but this information was not confirmed by AENM President
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in 2012. At a press conference held in Strasbourg on 16 June 2010, the political leadership of AENM was confirmed as follows: President
Bruno Gollnisch Bruno Gollnisch (; born 28 January 1950) is a French academic and politician, a member of the National Front (FN) far-right party. He was a member of the European Parliament and was chairman of the European Parliamentary group ' Identity, Tra ...
, Vice President
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, Treasurer Béla Kovács and Secretary General Valerio Cignetti."Alliance of European National Movements Expands to 9 Parties,"
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At the end of 2011 the National Front withdrew from AENM and joined the
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. However, Gollnisch and Jean-Marie Le Pen maintained their position in the organisation. In October 2013, Marine Le Pen requested that Gollnisch and Jean-Marie Le Pen leave their positions in the AENM in order to join the more moderate EAF and so unify the French National Front under the EAF banner. Marine Le Pen has tried to "de-demonize" the party, i.e. to give it a more acceptable image. Cooperation with the openly racist and antisemitic parties present in AENM was seen as contradictory to these aims. On November 7, the two declared they have followed the request and left AENM. This also meant the end of Gollnisch's term as the AENM's chairman, a place occupied by Béla Kovács since January 2014. In the spring of 2013, Svoboda lost its observer status after a conflict with other member groups over its policies towards ethnic minorities in the West of Ukraine. However, Svoboda maintained its informal affiliation with the group until March 2014, when it announced its withdrawal of its observer status from AENM citing several members of the alliance making "statements supporting the Russian sponsored separatist forces and support for the Russian Armed Forces occupation of Ukrainian territory". Béla Kovács, leader of the alliance, had served as an observer at the 2014 Donbass parliamentary election. In 2014, there were accusations against Chairman Kovács that he or his wife were working for the Russian intelligence service. In 2015 the European Parliament lifted Kovács immunity. In September 2020, he was cleared of the charge of espionage. However, he had worked with the Russian secret service SWR, but mostly in the form of influencing, with the aim to promote Russian interests through the AEMN. Kovács was sentenced to one and a half years imprisonment for fraud and falsification of documents to the detriment of the European Parliament.https://www.dailysabah.com/world/europe/hungary-acquits-former-member-of-european-parliament-of-spying-on-eu-for-russia


Members

The current member parties of the AENM are the following:


Party Structure


President

* Béla Kovács (Formerly
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, Hungary)


Board Members

* Valerio Cignetti ( FT, Italy) *
Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti Zmago Jelinčič "Plemeniti" (born January 7, 1948) is a Slovenian politician and author. He is the head of the Slovenian National Party ( sl, Slovenska Nacionalna Stranka, SNS). Jelinčič was born in the eastern Slovenian city of Maribor in w ...
( SNS, Slovenia)


Former members


See also

*
Alliance for Peace and Freedom The Alliance for Peace and Freedom (APF) is a Far-right politics, far-right European political party founded on 4 February 2015. The main member parties had been involved in the now defunct European National Front. The party wishes to establ ...
* Euronat *
European Alliance for Freedom The European Alliance for Freedom (EAF) was a pan- European political party of right-wing Eurosceptics. It was founded in late 2010, the party was recognised by the European Parliament in 2011. It did not seek registration as a political party ...
*
European National Front European National Front (ENF) was a coordinating structure of European ultranationalist parties. There had been one elected MEP from ENF in the past. He was the leader of the Italian New Force, Roberto Fiore. Three parties of the European Nati ...
(2004–2009)


References


External links


Official website
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