Conservative lawmakers and politicians from Europe are planning to attend President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration. But the European group is also expected to include leaders of other parties that are on the far right in their countries or that have just begun to be accepted at home.

Many of the European politicians who flocked to Washington share Trump’s anti-immigrant views.

The European leader is Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy, according to her wishes. Mrs. Meloni, a conservative, was one of the first leaders to visit Trump at Mar-a-Lago after his election, on Jan. 4.

Mrs. Meloni, who is trying to stop immigration, is considered one of the most powerful leaders in Europe, and her supporters hope that she will emerge as Trump’s best friend in Europe.

The most notable absence is Prime Minister Viktor Orban of Hungary, one of Trump’s biggest supporters in Europe. Despite being admired by many Americans as an ideological leader and praised by Mr. Trump as “amazing,” the proud Hungarian leader was not invited to attend, according to a Facebook post written by Zoltan Kovacs, Hungary’s secretary of state for communications. countries.

“To be clear: Viktor Orbán will not take part in the event. President Trump’s team – according to tradition – did not invite foreign heads of state or government,” said Mr. Kovacs.

This is clearly not true. Trump has said he will break with tradition and invite foreign leaders, including China’s Xi Jinping. (Mr. Xi will send the country’s vice president.)

Here are some of the Europeans who are planning to appear

Éric Zemmour, who has been there condemned in France to incite racial hatred, announced that he had been invited to the opening ceremony. Mr Zemmour has written best-selling books criticizing a country whose Christian roots are being undermined by Muslim immigrants and their descendants.

The former television star, who in 2022 ran for the presidency of France was inspired by the Trump campaignwrote on X, “The wind of freedom that blows in the United States will soon blow in France.”

Mr. Zemmour won just 7 percent of the vote in the 2022 presidential election, and his party has only one EU lawmaker – Sarah Knafo, Mr.

France’s most powerful anti-immigration National Rally party said it had sent delegates, but neither Marine Le Pen, the party’s former leader, nor Jordan Bardella, its current president, would attend.

While Mr. Trump’s anti-immigrant message is also affecting the National Rally, which is known to be right-wing in France, His way of destroying politics is against the parties age, and more and more success, effort give an extreme picture.

Mr. Bardella said CNews TV last week that he did not understand the “fashion” of running “to take your picture in front of Donald Trump during the inauguration.”

A group of Germans planning to attend the event includes a representative from the main conservative party – Jürgen Hardt of the CDU/CSU, who is leading Germany’s upcoming elections. But the member of A German alternativeor AfD, some parts of which are considered false and the German government, are also expected to be present.

AfD’s representative will be Tino Chrupalla, their leader, not Alice Weidel, their leader in the February election. Elon Musk, the billionaire sponsor of Mr. Trump, recently interviewed Mrs. Weidel on the X social network, giving the AfD a platform that the German media and politicians have been refusing. Mr. Musk has endorsed Ms. Weidel in the election.

Among the expected visitors to Britain are former Prime Minister Liz Truss, who resigned after less than two months in office because of a budget plan that rocked the financial markets, and Nigel Farage, who leads the terrorist, populist and anti-immigration party. . Change UK

Mr. Farage is a longtime friend of the president-elect, and supported his White House campaigns in 2016 and 2020 and last year.

While in Washington, Mr. Farage may have an opportunity to try to repair his relationship with Mr. Musk, who was a supporter but recently turned on Mr. Farage. The dispute was sparked by Mr Farage’s refusal to agree to Mr Musk’s demand that the right-wing agitator be multiple. cases released from prison.