Alliance of European National Movements


The Alliance of European National Movements is a European political party that was formed in Budapest on 24 October 2009 by a number of ultranationalist and far-right parties from countries in Europe.
AENM's founding members were Jobbik, France's National Front, Italy's Tricolour Flame, 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.
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 British National Party claimed that AENM had been extended to nine parties, but this information was not confirmed by AENM President Bruno Gollnisch 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, Vice President Nick Griffin, Treasurer Béla Kovács and Secretary General Valerio Cignetti.
At the end of 2011 the National Front withdrew from AENM and joined the European Alliance for Freedom. 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.

Members

The current member parties of the AENM are the following:
CountryPartyLeaderPolitical group
in 2019–2024 term		European ParliamentNational lower housesGovernment
National Democratic Party
Национална демократическа партия		Dimitar Stoyanovnone
Tricolour Flame
Fiamma Tricolore 		Attilio Carellinone
United Right
Destre Unite 		Massimiliano Paneronone
National Renovator Party
Partido Nacional Renovador 		José Pinto Coelhonone
Slovenian National Party
Slovenska nacionalna stranka 		Zmago Jelinčič Plemenitinone
British National Party
Adam Walkernone

Party Structure

President