One is a wildly popular, seemingly happy-go-lucky YouTuber with no political experience from Cyprus.
Popular YouTuber and TikToker with millions of online followers Fidias Panayiotou proclamation as the winner of one of six seats allotted to Cyprus in the European Parliament, arrives at the Filoxenia Conference Center in the capital Nicosia, Cyprus, on Tuesday, June 11, 2024.
“It seems now that people are hungry not for political positions, but for true people that are not lying saying the truth,” he told The Associated Press in an interview in English, the language he uses for most of his posts.While Fidias avoided strong political positions and was already widely known for his online high jinks, Spaniard Alvise Pérez was mostly unknown until he leveraged his diatribes on Instagram and Telegram against the alleged dangers of immigration.
“The newer types of digital platforms like TikTok and Instagram have clearly accelerated” the fragmentation of politics, Forti said, because they help the far right achieve its two main objectives of disseminating their ideas very quickly and making themselves appear as everyday, normal people.
By his own admission, his online popularity only gave a segment of Cypriot voters — who are deeply disenchanted with the perceived corruption of a party system that has operated on a favors-for-votes basis for decades — an outlet to vent their anger and chastise the country’s political caste. Political analyst Haridimos Tsoukas echoed Papadopoulos, saying one in five Cypriot voters wanted to make their point by sticking “their tongue out to the political system, not just in protest, but to express disgust in an ostentatious way.”Alvise, which is a pen name, also successfully tapped into an irreverent vibe. He ran under the name “The Party Is Over” and with a logo of a cartoon squirrel wearing athat has long become associated with various so-called anti-system movements.
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