The far right racked up wins across much of Europe in the EU Parliamentary elections that just concluded
The just-concluded European Union elections were yet another milestone for far-right parties on the continent. They racked up gains across many of the EU’s 27 countries, and the surprising scale of their victories is rattling the political establishment there and drawing attention in the United States. The parties’ success embarrassed German Chancellor Olaf Scholz by outpacing his party and prompted French President Emmanuel Macron to call snap legislative elections.
All of the EU's countries have different political dynamics, and the EU parliamentary elections are often an opportunity for voters in each country to take a symbolic vote against those in power in their own nation, since they're voting for people who will take office in Brussels rather than their own capital. There's also been a global backlash to incumbents that doesn't seem to have any ideological basis. But the right's resurgence in Europe is more than symbolic or random.
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