The two new far-right groups failed to clinch any of the fourteen vice-president positions.
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00:00The far-right candidates bidding to become vice-president of the European Parliament
00:08were voted down on Tuesday as part of centrist parties coordinated efforts to build a firewall
00:13against the radical right-wing.
00:16While the European conservatives and reformists did manage to secure two vice-presidents,
00:21the two newly formed radical right-wing groupings were blocked.
00:28It means neither Patriots for Europe nor the Europe of Sovereign Nations will be represented
00:32in the European Parliament's bureau.
00:38Parties and political groups that basically want to destroy this parliament, that want
00:42to weaken the European Union and that ran on platforms abolishing the EU, leaving the
00:48EU, whatever, should not hold responsibility in the European Union, should not hold responsibility
00:55here in the European Parliament.
00:57Well, if your political goal is to destroy this parliament, you should not be put in
01:02charge of managing this parliament and that's the reason why we apply the cordon sanitaire.
01:08However, the far-right consider the cordon sanitaire strategy to be a breach of democracy.
01:14If the group of patriots is the third largest group in the European Parliament, I didn't
01:21agree with it, but the voters decided it, so going against the will of the Europeans,
01:27a will that has been expressed democratically by millions of European voters, I think represents
01:32a very big assumption of responsibility, as well as a lack of respect.
01:38With 14 vice-presidents up for grabs, 11 were clinched in a first round of voting, 5 were
01:44given to the Socialists and Democrats, 3 to the European People's Party, 2 to Renew Europe
01:50and 1 to the Greens.