ZAGREB, March 18, 2019 – The opposition Živi Zid party presented the joint platform of a group of European populist parties for May’s European Parliament election in Zagreb on Sunday, with the party’s leader Ivan Vilibor Sinčić saying that they were a new generation of politicians who would build a new and better Europe.
The platform advocating an honest Europe that will be closer to citizens and that will fight against corruption and organised crime was presented by Sinčić and the leaders of kindred European parties – Luigi di Maio from Italy’s Five Star Movement, Pawel Kukiz from the Polish party Kukiz 15 and Evangellos Tsompanidis from Greece’s AKKEL.
“These European elections will not be won like previous ones where old parties won a majority. The situation will be completely different, and our message is one of hope – things can be different than they are in the EU today,” di Maio said to applause and approval from Živi Zid members and sympathisers who gathered for the presentation of the new platform.
These four parties and Finland’s Movement Now (Liike Nyt), who did not come to Zagreb, seek to establish their own political group in the European Parliament “to do good things for the benefit of the European nations,” as di Maio put it.
“We want people in Europe to live better, we want their work to be appreciated and we want a minimum wage to be determined at the European level. We are fighting for the dignity of the European citizen and if we fail to achieve this, there is no reason for the EU to survive,” di Maio said.
Sinčić said that their joint manifesto was not a definitive document and that it would be improved in cooperation with the parties that had acceded to it and that were yet to accede to it.
The 10-point manifesto includes projects promoting direct democracy, respect for the specificities of European countries and rejection of centralisation. It advocates radical change in the European institutions to ensure that the European Parliament is not subordinated to the Commission.
“We want to change the entire concept of European politics, without fake left-right divisions and without rows over fake ideological divisions,” Sinčić said.
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