Centrist parties suffer heavy losses in EU parliamentary elections to the benefit of the far right and the Greens

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

The 40-year stranglehold of the coalition of centrist parties over the levers of power in Brussels looked set to be broken as voters in the European elections turned out in record numbers to bolster radical alternatives including the Greens and the far right.

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[CitizenVectron]

Didn't the far right actually lose ground in most countries?

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

The right-wing populists did well in France, Italy, Hungary, and the UK, but flamed out in Scandinavia, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany.

[Joe]

27 minutes ago, SFLUFAN said:

The right-wing populists did well in France, Italy, Hungary, and the UK, but flamed out in Scandinavia, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany.

 

Haha, fuck Vox.

[TheGreatGamble]

The best thing ever to happen to the europeen right was far left politics. The right didn't even have to work for it, just let the left sink further into progressiveness and politics based on feelings (im not saying the right doesn't politic based on feeling, I am saying they are far better at deflecting away from those criticisms though) that the center has been pushed right worldwide. Restricting speech, putting people in jail for reporting on trials, taking in more refugees than countries could actually handle without almost no background checks. Muslim terror attacks all over Europe. It has turned people against the left in a lot of countries. The left ate their own and turned people off what should have been easy wins. 

[CitizenVectron]

So clickbait headlines aside, it actually looks like the left/centre-left actually did the best in these elections. The reason the far-right parties appear to have done well is because they tend to have unified parties, while the left/centre-left are split between multiple parties. This is why it was a headline that Le Pen beat Macron, but in reality the left handily beat Le Pen because Macron is only the leader of one centre-left party.

 

So while it's true that the right has unified and overtaken the centre...the centre and centre-left still have a numerical seat advantage (especially combined with the left).

[CitizenVectron]

55 minutes ago, TheGreatGamble said:

The best thing ever to happen to the europeen right was far left politics. The right didn't even have to work for it, just let the left sink further into progressiveness and politics based on feelings (im not saying the right doesn't politic based on feeling, I am saying they are far better at deflecting away from those criticisms though) that the center has been pushed right worldwide. Restricting speech, putting people in jail for reporting on trials, taking in more refugees than countries could actually handle without almost no background checks. Muslim terror attacks all over Europe. It has turned people against the left in a lot of countries. The left ate their own and turned people off what should have been easy wins. 

 

I mean, you can say the same thing in reverse. The best thing to happen to the left was far-right politics. That's how it works. One side goes too far, and the other side benefits (this is how most of the developed world, minus US, got universal healthcare, welfare, etc). The current idiocy of the right in American politics will benefit the left and the implementation of reformed healthcare policies, etc.

[Anathema-]

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