Leaders of the populist Zivi Zid opposition party denied on Wednesday media allegations that they had met with American politician and media executive Steve Bannon, an influential right-wing organiser who is widely credited in helping President Donald Trump win election in November 2016.

They did confirm that they made contacts with the Italy’s populist Five Star Movement, which Zivi Zid described as an anti-establishment and “anti-imperialist” party, and announced intentions to cooperate with them.

Earlier this year, Zivi Zid leader Ivan Vilibor Sincic said that his party was preparing for the European Parliament election due in May 2019.

“I am glad to see movements and parties emerging across Europe that question the present structure of the EU and its survival. We have been invited to visit the European Parliament in Strasbourg in early October by one of the deputy speakers of the European Parliament, Mr Fabio Massimo Castaldo, an Italian MP from the Five Star Movement, a party that is ideologically very close to us. We will talk about Europe’s future,” Sincic said in September.

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