French parliament backs call for EU to list Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organisation
- 2026-01-22 11:02:51
The French parliament on Thursday endorsed a resolution for the European Union to list the Muslim Brotherhood as a terror organisation, according to media reports.
The vote was described by broadcaster CNews as a “victory” for the right-wing political party Les Republicains. It was adopted with 157 votes for and 101 against.
This is “the beginning of the fight”, Les Republicains' leader Laurent Wauquiez said, after a heated debated on the topic with leftist party France Unbowed.
The text, published on the National Assembly's website, described the Muslim Brotherhood, which has its roots in Egypt, as a threat to European values. It highlighted that it had been recently banned by Jordan and that restrictive measures have also been applied to the group in Egypt, Russia, the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
The text said it “strongly emphasises that the Muslim Brotherhood movement constitutes a global ideological threat to the fundamental principles of the EU, in that it advocates a politico-religious separatism based on the challenge to the sovereignty of civil laws.”
