Posted on 06/09/2024 2:15:03 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Elections in 27 countries for the European Parliament ended on Sunday with early projections giving far-right parties a strong showing, a result that, if confirmed, would amount to a powerful gauge of voter dissatisfaction and a stinging rebuke for the political mainstream.
The balloting indicated that the prevailing winds had grown decidedly chill for Europe’s political establishment. The results are likely to make it harder for the European Parliament to form majorities to pass laws, and would render negotiations over divisive issues even tougher. More broadly, they underscored that the momentum of the far-right forces that have been expanding their challenge to centrists over the past decade had yet to crest.
The projected outcome did not bode well for Europe’s centrist leaders and their parties, including in France and Germany, the continent’s biggest powers that are considered the engine of Europe’s experiment in pooling national sovereignty.
The results were especially crushing for President Emmanuel Macron of France, who soon afterward announced on national television that he would dissolve the National Assembly and call for new legislative elections.
Mr. Macron’s Renaissance party was poised to finish with about half the support of the far-right National Rally of Marine Le Pen, which was on track to secure more than 30 percent of the vote, according to projections based on preliminary vote counts.
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Deport the koranimals and make Europe great again!
And deport the globalists along with them!
(But not to here).
Matina, can you say far-right ?
I knew that you could.
What an average “journalist” these days calls “far right”, a normal person would call, to the right just enough to not be a rabid leftist.
I am smelling BS.
They did well to be a torn in the side. But unfortunately three groups put together have majority.
“Far Right” = Normal People
What’s the regular right doing?
Far right? That means rational people.
Yea, and Macron is a “centrist”.
Never any such thing as “far left”. Only centrist and far right.
The IDIOT European leaders made it EASY for the voters by starting the Ukraine War. Without that, Right Wing Extremist Voters (their equivalent of Trump voters) would be forced to vote to both destroy the planet and to send those poor (fighting-aged male) ‘refugees’ back home. Now they get something easy to vote for.
To The NY Times that would be Mitt Romney.
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Even Europe is getting away from leftist! Of course, hard right in Europe is Moderate Republicans...
Hard Right in Europe is anything to the Right of Stalin.
Left-Right is always a false dichotomy because politics is not a linear construct and is far too complex an issue ever to be one.
Even just left-and-right is shaky ground but to compound it with “far” is always ALWAYS hectoring and propagandizing the issue.
Never any such thing as “far left”. Only centrist and far right.
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I use the term “Far Left” to refer to left-of-center people all the time. Turn about is fair play; and it’s a good habit to start.
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