Belgium, Politico, Populism

TEHRAN (Iran News) According to Politico, the founder of this party has announced that he intends to capitalize on the popularity of Donald Trump, the former U.S. President, because he regards Trump as “the ultimate symbol of populism” over the past 100 years across the entire world.

The American magazine wrote that although Trump sometimes considers himself the “President of Europe” due to his strong influence over politics in Brussels (the seat of the European Union), even he probably never expected that his name would appear on the ballot papers in this European capital.

Now, however, a French-speaking Belgian far-right party, which has indirectly taken its name from Donald Trump, has recently been established by the former head of Belgium’s National Front.

Salvatore Nicotra, the founder of this party, defended the chosen name in interviews with Belgian local media, saying that “he [Trump] directly embodies what we stand for.”

The name of the Trump Party is an acronym for “Tous Réunis pour l’Union des Mouvements Populistes” (“All United for the Union of Populist Movements”). The party is the successor to the Walloon far-right parties “Chez Nous” (“Our Home”) and the Belgian National Front (NF).

Nicotra emphasized that, unlike the Flemish far-right party Vlaams Belang, Belgium’s largest far-right movement, the Trump Party does not support separatism and intends to participate in both the federal elections and the 2029 European Parliament elections.

He also stated, “We are a socially inclined right-wing populist party.”

Nicotra, who served as a member of the Saint-Gilles municipal council in Brussels from 1994 to 2000, has not ruled out the possibility of running either in the Belgian capital or in future municipal elections.

Other co-founders of the party—all former members of the National Front—include Emanuele Licari, a former member of Vlaams Belang who was expelled from that party due to his explicit admiration of fascism.

According to reports, the official launch of the Belgian Trump Party will take place on November 30.

With this move, the process of reviving Hitlerian fascism and, from a party-political and electoral standpoint, driving Europe toward a neo-dictatorship and away from democracy, will accelerate.

This is something Europe never expected. The roots of lumpenism had always existed in Europe, but they were limited to minorities who constantly clashed with the police. Yet today, with the formation of the Trump Party, this trend is taking on an official form—and it may soon find its way into parliaments and even governments.

Alas, the wound has been worsened — as if the flower was adorned yet again with weeds.