Giorgia Meloni’s victory in one of the founding countries of the EU could complicate European unity now that a winter characterized by rising prices and higher energy prices is approaching.
A far-right prime minister, Giorgia Meloniwill direct for the first time one of the founding countries of the European Union, Italyafter sweeping the general elections this Sunday.
A situation that could complicate European unity against Russia due to the invasion of Ukraine, now that a winter characterized by rising prices and higher energy prices is approaching. Italy is also the first recipient of the funds that Europe has launched to alleviate the economic and social consequences of the coronavirus pandemic.
The extreme right in Europe is present in both national and regional parliaments, as well as in some governments. In addition to the future Italy, in Hungary it is part of its executive and in France the National Group of Marine Le Pen achieved a historic result in the elections to the National Assembly in June 2022, going from 8 deputies to 89, on a total of 577.
The result in Italy comes days after the extreme right in Sweden, represented by the Sweden Democrats (DS), became the second political force and possibly the key to the formation of the new government.
SITUATION BY COUNTRY
ITALY: The coalition formed by the Brothers of Italy (FdI), Liga and Forza Italia (FI) won the elections this Sunday in Italy with 44.1% of the votes, and the one in charge of forming the government will be the far-right Giorgia Meloni. The FdL, Meloni’s party, was the most voted, with 26.2% of the votes -in the previous elections, in 2018, it obtained 4.3%-; Mateo Salvini’s League adds around 9% and Forza Italia, the formation led by Silvio Berlusconi, 8.3%, the worst results in its history.
SWEDEN: It took a new step towards the formation of a right-wing government after the Social Democratic prime minister, Magdalena Andersson, formalized her resignation on September 15, after admitting defeat in the legislative elections four days earlier. The final count of the Electoral Authority certified the victory of the right-wing bloc, which prevailed over the center-left by seven tenths or three seats (49.5% and 176 by 48.8% and 173), with which the conservative leader, Ulf Kristersson, has the task of forming a government.
In Sweden, the extreme right is represented by the Sweden Democrats (DS), which has become the second formation in the country, behind the Social Democratic Party and ahead of the Moderate Party (conservative), with 19.1%.
FRANCE: The extreme right in France is represented by the National Group of Marine Le Pen, a party that obtained 41.46% of the votes in the second round of the presidential elections in April compared to the triumph, with 58.54%, of his opponent Emmanuel Macron, which meant almost 8 points more representation than in 2017, with an unprecedented result for this formation.
The legislative elections for the National Assembly in June gave this formation a historic result with 89 deputies, compared to the 8 it had, which meant that they formed a parliamentary group for the first time.
FINLAND: In Finland, the extreme right is represented by True Finns, who in the April 2019 legislative elections were two tenths away from winning the elections with one deputy less than the Social Democrats.
NETHERLANDS: The March 2021 elections relegated Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom to a third position, which lost three seats compared to the previous elections and the Democracy Forum went from two to eight seats. In March 2019, the Forum for Democracy led by far-right Thierry Baudet snatched a majority in the Dutch Senate from Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s party, storming out with the same seats as the ruling party.
BELGIUM: In Belgium Flemish Interest became in March 2019 the second most voted party both in the federal elections (where they rose from 3 to 18 seats) and in the European ones.
AUSTRIA: Since December 2017, Austria had the only government in Western Europe in which a far-right party sat, after the pact reached between the Popular Party (ÖVP) and the ultra-critical Euro-nationalists of the FPÖ, until in May 2019 the ministers of this party announced their departure from the coalition in protest at the dismissal of the head of the Interior for a corruption scandal.
HUNGARY: Hungary, where the ultra-nationalist Viktor Orbán has ruled since 2010, assured in March 2021 that he was negotiating to create a new group in the European Parliament with far-right formations from Italy and Poland, after leaving the European People’s Party (EPP).
GERMANY: In Germany, after the September 2021 elections that ended the Merkel era, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) obtained parliamentary representation, with 5.7%, half a point below its 2017 results.
SPAIN: In Spain, the extreme right broke in for the first time with Vox after the regional elections of December 2, 2018 in Andalusia, where this formation won 12 deputies. Since April 2022, this formation has been part of the coalition government with the Popular Party in Castilla-León with a vice president and three ministries.
In the early general elections of April 2019, Vox obtained 24 deputies in Congress, although in the November 2019 elections it became one of the protagonists, with 52 parliamentarians, an unprecedented result for the extreme right in Spain.
Source: Eitb
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