ANALYSIS – The conservative right is on the move in Europe. First, it was Hungary under Viktor Orban, where the European Union (EU) and the United States, under Joe Biden, have ostracized him and his government.
But now Europe's conservative wave is spreading, and the EU and Team Biden will have to deal with the backlash they helped create. (RELATED: Why US Conservatives Love Hungary's Leader Viktor Orbán)
In Italy, ultra-conservative Giorgia Meloni is prime minister, Finland has a right-leaning coalition government and Sweden's government also has a right-wing party in its ruling coalition.
And others, like Austria, Germany and France may be following suit.
Four years out from the next presidential election, polls have suggested France's Marine Le Pen of the ultra-conservative National Rally would win a runoff held today.
In Greece, in May, its center-right prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, won a major election victory, setting up a second vote in the summer that could give his party an outright majority in parliament. (RELATED: European Government Suddenly Collapses. Is This Our Future?)
And Spain looks to be the next country to join the conservative club. Despite the left's ranting, most of these conservative parties are not neo-fascist or ‘far-right' – they are just right.
Final opinion polls show the conservative People's Party (PP) well ahead of the ruling Socialists but likely need the support of the more conservative Vox movement to govern.
According to the main Spanish pollsters, which are barred from publishing surveys after Tuesday, July 19, PP would garner 131-151 seats in the 350-member lower house, falling short of an outright majority of 176.
While some polls showed that even with Vox, the right could struggle to achieve a joint majority, the average of all surveys released on Monday by various respected pollsters shows PP and Vox getting 140 and 36 seats, respectively – for a total of 176 seats – just on the line to rule.
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) would get 98-115 seats, according to the surveys whose projections work out at an average of 108 seats.
Spain's election is on July 23.
If Spain does join the conservative wave, expect conservatives in the other countries moving right to redouble their efforts. And as I noted before, this isn't your European grandfather's right-wing politics.
By American standards, it's just conservative nationalism provoked by overreaching far-left lunacy on transgenderism, massive immigration, racial conflicts, high taxes and spending, crime and just general social collapse.
The Guardian explains:
For long, opposition to immigration, Islam and the EU were what united Europe's far-right parties. New causes have now also emerged: the culture wars, minority rights, the climate crisis and the unfair sacrifices that governments insist will be needed to combat it.
Their appeal has been further enhanced by the cost-of-living crisis flowing from pandemic recovery and Russia's war on Ukraine; by rapid and confusing social and digital change and, everywhere, by mounting mistrust of the mainstream.
It adds:
From Italy to Finland, much of Europe's centre right is as hardline on immigration as the far right, while far-right parties are busy projecting economic discipline, dialling back on Euroscepticism and downplaying past support for Russia.
“The far right's rise has coincided with the decline of a certain kind of left,” Fieschi said. “Far-right parties now seem like a reasonable vote for many of the people who in previous circumstances would have voted for a popular, protective left.”
Like in the U.S., it's the far-left which has gotten more radical as the so-called far-right has become more mainstream.
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the positions of American Liberty News.
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All that the European countries had to do was take a good look at the follies of the Biden administration here in the USA and gasp in unison……………
YUUCCCKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
actually Europe is suffering under the same dreadful policys biden and the dems are giving us. many Europeans have learned and taking back that power from the EU. similar to the EU biden is wanting to give the UN power over the US.
.People all over the world are waking up to the nefarious acts of the left. There may still be hope for our world.