On Tuesday 1 October, the ‘Patriots for Europe’ (PfE) group in the European Parliament announced that it had lodged an application with the Court of Justice of the EU asking the Court to annul the decision of the pro-European political groups to exclude its elected representatives from all positions of responsibility - parliamentary committee chairs and vice-chairs, as well as in the Bureau of the European Parliament (see EUROPE 13454/2).
In their press release published on X, the ‘Patriots’ express their belief that it was the parliamentary committees that excluded them.
“The discriminatory nature of that decision violates the principle that all members of parliament should be able to fully exercise the mandates they received from the voters”, explained the group, calling for the results of the European elections to be reflected in all the European Parliament’s governing bodies “without any discrimination”.
According to the far-right group, the application of a ‘cordon sanitaire’ around it violates not only the Parliament’s rules of procedure, but also Article 10 of the Treaty on European Union (on representative democracy) and Article 21 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights (on non-discrimination).
The political group also announced the arrival of two new members, Anna Bryłka and Tomasz Buczek, both of Poland, from the Konfederacja party, bringing it to 86 members. (Original version in French by Camille-Cerise Gessant and Mathieu Bion)