The Left group will consider 5Stars’ request at a meeting Thursday morning in the Parliament.
The Left’s co-chair Manon Aubry said after their constitutive meeting on Wednesday that they “are looking carefully at this request,” adding they would have a bureau meeting Thursday morning, when they will decide whether to accept the request.
“The door is open, but there are clear political conditions,” Aubry told reporters.
The inclusion of 5Stars would take The Left group to 50 members in European Parliament — still one of the smallest political families there.
The move would quash rumors that 5Stars was set to form a new leftist grouping together with the party of German Left Bundestag member and former EU lawmaker Sahra Wagenknecht along with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico’s Smer.
Smer has said publicly that it wishes to return to the Socialists grouping from which it was excluded last year after forming a coalition with a nationalist party. However, the Socialists deny this as a possibility.
This story has been updated.
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