For a long time, opposition to immigration, Islam and the EU were the far right’s core causes. Photograph: snapshot/Future Image/B Elmenthaler/ShutterstockĪ range of factors is driving their advance. Giorgia Meloni, whose party has neofascist roots, heads Italy’s farthest-right government since the second world war. In Poland, the ruling nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party finished first in October elections but – while it is trying to form a majority – has no viable path to government after a three-way opposition alliance led by Donald Tusk won an overall majority.īut in Slovakia, Robert Fico – if not far right, certainly populist, and an avowed Orbán admirer – won September’s election, fulfilled his campaign promise to halt military aid to Ukraine, and has raised rule-of-law concerns with attacks on the press.Ĭontinental analysts also cite Britain’s Conservatives as being under populist, far-right influence, noting the extreme nationalist sloganeering of the Brexit campaign and the government’s ferocious rhetoric on immigration and the “war on woke”. The far right has suffered some setbacks this year: in Spain’s parliamentary election in July, Vox saw its vote share drop from the 15% it won in 2019 to 12%, slashing the number of seats it holds in parliament from 52 to 33. We’re back! □ /gpeBXlbLC1- Balázs Orbán November 23, 2023 And only a conservative shift can bring that change to Europe. They want a return to normality and safety. The Dutch right-wing victory put another conservative flag on the map.
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