After ambitiuos announcements in advance ENF could only start a year after the legislative period’s beginning. But since then, it proved, apart from some FN/RN defectors, relatively stable. Not even finance scandals (FN_f) or national government involvements nor their diversely motivated ends (FPÖ, Lega) could do any harm to the group.

extra-parliamentary alliance/party: MENF

ideological orientations: economic neoliberalism, value-oriented social conservatism, EU-hostility