The advance of the extreme right in Europe has shaken France and Germany especially, as evidenced by the results after the European elections held last Sunday, June 9. However, in the nordic countries, what goes up is the leftmost left and the green ones. This, according to Ruth Ferrero, professor of Political Science at the UAM, is because “in Finland, Sweden and Denmark ultras have been around for much longer bidding for electoral competition than in other countries of the European Union”.
In 2010, the ultra party Sweden Democrats He managed to enter the Swedish Parliament with his anti-immigration speech. Shortly after, another far-right party, True Finns, emerged with 19% of the votes in the Finnish Parliament.
Its weight in the country’s politics is beginning to be decisive. Some even enter the Government directly, which exacerbates their wear and tear and allows these Nordic countries to make a difference in the last European elections with a common denominator compared to the rest of Europe, since “the leftmost left of social democracy managed to increase its share of votes“comments José Manuel Sáenz Rotko, professor of International Relations at UA Comillas.
From there the reasons are different in each of them. In Sweden climate change The population is concerned, but also the approach of the far-right parties to Le Pen and his “sympathy” with Russia, although the worst thing for them has been the complaints of disinformation used by the far-right. “They have used mechanisms to wear down the political adversary that are not acceptable to a good part of the population,” explains the professor in International Relations, such as using “anonymous profiles on social networks to attack the enemy.”
For its part, Finlandwhich has the extreme right within the government itself, has become the clearest case of institutional wear and tear low electoral participation has harmed the government. Meanwhile, in Denmarkthe party that leads the extreme right maintains its downward trend and It is increasingly fragmented.
New actors who in politics almost always mean a certain loss of votes for the old ones.
Source: Lasexta
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