Far-right victories in Greece highlight trend across Europe
Far-right victories in Greece highlight trend across Europe
The Spartans, a group linked to the banned neo-Nazi Golden Dawn, won 14 seats in Parliament.
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In Greece, while the ruling center-right New Democracy Party won a landslide victory, with 40.5% of the vote, its triumph was overshadowed by the success of the Spartans, a recently formed far-right nativist group that gained 12 seats in Greece’s 300-seat Parliament.
The Brothers of Italy last year became the first far-right party to win an Italian election since World War I.
Earlier this month, the anti-immigration Finns Party entered a four-party coalition to rule in Finland.
In September 2022 Sweden saw the hard-right populist Sweden Democrats win more than 20% of the vote to become the country’s second-biggest party.
The far-right Vox Party in Spain is expected to do well in national elections next month, hovering around 14% in opinion polls. In 2019, the party won 15% of the vote and 52 lawmakers.
The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) can count on the support of about 20% of the German public, according to opinion polls; on Sunday, it won an important regional election in the eastern state of Thuringia.
Last year Marine Le Pen, the then-leader of the National Assembly, came closer than ever to becoming France’s first far-right president.
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If the established parties move further to the left, there will be new ones that fill the gap on the very right. What's so special about that?
This is literally the opposite of what is happening only there are no far left groups.