London-for the first time in modern history, the far-right and populist holidays are simultaneously overcoming surveys in the three main economies in Europe in Germany, France and Great Britain.
A survey on Tuesday showed an alternative for Germany, which is under surveillance for the country’s intelligence services about the alleged extremism, it is now the most favored by voters. The survey conducted by the RTL station put the AFD in 26%, ahead of the rulers Christian Democrats in 24%.
This is a high water brand for the extreme European right, a marginal movement once marginalized whose virulently anti-immigration, anti-islam and cultural war policy were rejected by the mainstream only one decade ago. Today, these parties have developed deep links with President Donald Trump and his Republican allies, who openly cite nationalists such as Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, as inspirations in policies and tactics.
For years, the national demonstration of France has constantly directed surveys ahead of the country’s next presidential elections in 2027. And the reform of Great Britain in the United Kingdom, led by Trump’s ally and his friend Nigel Farage, since April has exceeded most surveys there.
The extreme right parties have been chosen in recent years in the governments of Italy, Hungary and in other places. The center to the right and the center on the left has bleeding votes in the midst of high inflation, fears of immigration and collapsing faith in institutions, all family problems in the United States as well.
The milestone of Tuesday’s survey is “a sign of the power of populism, misinformation and failure of the established parts to understand what is happening,” said Nic Cheeseman, a professor of democracy and international development at the University of Birmingham of England.
Although the extreme right has been obtaining profits during the last decade, Cheeseman believes that the surveys that show the three main economies of Europe in Europe are “the first, at least in modern times.”
There is no guarantee that London, Berlin and Paris be governed by extreme right parties; The next elections of these countries are not until 2029, 2029 and 2027 respectively. All these groups are surveyed in the percentage of the 20s and 30s, enough to lead surveys in Europe’s multiparty systems, but not enough to govern only out of a coalition.
The majority of European politicians in this old margin reject the label of “extreme right”, with their historical connotations of Nazism that the continent melted 80 years ago. Many academics say that these parties, however, conform to the academic model, defined by Nativism, the idea that “non -native” perceived groups threaten their social fabric, and strong punishments for crime.
The roots of the increase in the extreme right are in the 2008 world financial crisis, which led the government to reduce budgets for public services and reduce living standards, some experts say, aggravated by the Arab spring of 2011 that gave birth to the civil war in Syria and a mass refugee crisis in Europe four years later.
The most recent social stressful factors, such as the Coronavirus pandemic and the war in Ukraine, have further increased the charm of populism, according to Hans-Jakob Schindler, the senior director of the Countermism project, a non-profit international group. But populist parties in Europe have also taken advantage of social networks with more power than their most centrist opponents, he said.
“They are teachers of the use of social networks much better than any of the most established parts,” he said. “When you have easy solutions for complex problems,” as he says that populist parties do it, “it is easier to communicate than complex political problems with which real parties, which make politics instead of just doing populism, will have to deal with.”
