Elections: Steve Bannon wants to influence the European elections with the right-wing foundation next year

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President Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, wants to influence the European elections next year with a new foundation. The organization, dubbed The Movement, will be headquartered in Brussels and will support European right-wing populists, the Bannon quoted American daily The Daily Beast as saying on Friday. The ultranationalist publicist also wants to declare war on the more leftist foundation of the American billionaire George Soros.

Specifically, the planned organization is to be right – wing populists in the EU who do not have a large apparatus in the form of investigations, of any kind. badysis and advice to intervene, as the report says. Before the 2019 European elections, she will hire ten people.

Bannon waits for the election in his own words with a victory of the right populist. "Right-wing populist nationalism is going to happen, it's going to rule," he said aloud, "The Daily Beast". Thanks to right-wing populist movements, there will be in Europe "individual nation-states with their own identities, their own borders".

He has already had talks with representatives of right-wing parties in the EU, including Britain's Nigel Farage, founder of United. Party of Kingdom Independence (UKIP), and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. In addition, he met with representatives of the former National Marine Front of Marine Le Pen in France and the ruling PiS party in Poland.

With its planned foundation, Bannon is based on American billionaire Soros, whose Open Society Foundation has been active in Europe for some time. "Soros is great," said Bannon "The Daily Beast". "He is the devil, but he is brilliant."

According to media reports, Bannon was in London a week ago when Trump visited the United Kingdom. There, the former confidant of Trump in a five-star hotel had received representatives of the right-wing movements in Europe. "It was so successful that we will start recruiting staff," commented Bannon on the meetings, according to "The Daily Beast".

In particular, the coalition government in Italy of the xenophobic Lega and the five-star populist movement encourages Bannon according to his own data. "Italy is the beating heart of modern politics," he told the US news portal. "If it works, it can succeed anywhere."

Ultranationalist journalist Bannon was named Trump's campaign supervisor three months before the 2016 US presidential election. He invented the nationalist and populist campaign of the American president today. After taking office in Trump in January 2017, Bannon was the chief strategist at the White House, but he did not stay long at this post. He was released in August.

Bannon then returned to his executive position on the right-wing Internet portal "Breitbart News". Also this work that he lost at the beginning of the year – following the vortex that was attributed to him in the book of revelation "Fire and Wrath" of the journalist Michael Wolff.