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  • European Voters Turn Against Left

    06/16/2002 12:47:28 PM PDT · by GeneD · 12 replies · 198+ views
    Filed at 3:11 p.m. ET LONDON (AP) -- Left-leaning governments across Europe are being kicked out by voters worried about ailing economies, crime, illegal migrants and a fear that traditional policies of state control don't work. Europeans are turning to conservative, and even far-right parties, for tough economic reforms and law-and-order policies. Many see the left as out of step with ordinary people. Left-of-center governments have fallen in Italy, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands. France's Socialists lost power in Sunday's parliamentary elections, according to exit polls, while Germany's once popular Social Democratic government is the underdog in September's elections. In...