Italian PM Giorgia Meloni is being seen as a key figure ahead of June’s European Union elections. She has been courted by both President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen and French politician Marine Le Pen. On May 26, Marine Le Pen told Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera she seeks Meloni’s support to unite the European Parliament’s hard-right parties into a far-right supergroup. The parties are currently divided between Le Pen’s Identity and Democracy (ID) group and Meloni’s nationalist European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in EU Parliament.