The ECR Group in the European Parliament has welcomed Nicolas Bay, MEP from Reconquête. With this move, the party family, under the leadership of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is opening up to a far-right group. Reconquête – an allusion to the reconquest of Spain by the Christians – was founded in 2021 by Éric Zemmour to run in the 2022 French presidential election. He gained seven percent of the votes. A few months later, the party failed to pass the five percent threshold in the parliamentary elections.