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‘In Spain, the embrace of anti-immigration policies by mainstream right parties has not stopped the ascent of Vox.’ Santiago Abascal, leader of the far-right Vox party, in Madrid in March. Photograph: Atilano Garcia/SOPA Images/REX/Shutterstock

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Across Europe, radical-right parties remain on the rise. In France, Marine Le Pen is again in the runoff for the French presidency against Emmanuel Macron. This time, polls suggest a much closer race than in the 2017 election. Just over a week ago, Viktor Orbán’s populist nationalist Fidesz party won a landslide in Hungary’s parliamentary elections.

Parties of the far right not only have realistic chances of entering and leading governments in many countries, their success continues to spread across the entire continent. Even Spain and Portugal, long considered exceptional because of the absence of radical-right forces, have recently seen the emergence, respectively, of Vox and Chega.…  Seguir leyendo »

Copies of magazines Der Spiegel and Stern feature Annalena Baerbock, the Greens' chancellor candidate for the general election in September, at a shop in Berlin on Tuesday. (David Gannon/AFP/Getty Images)

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Last week, the German Green Party nominated a candidate, Annalena Baerbock, for chancellor — the first time in its history that it has done so. Historically, only Germany’s large parties — the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) — have nominated a candidate for the head of the German government, as only they were considered likely contenders to lead a coalition government. But the Green Party, which received just 8.9 percent of the vote in the last federal election, has reasons for newfound confidence.

Current polls consistently put it at more than 20 percent of the national vote, which in Germany’s increasingly fragmented parliament could be enough to lead a coalition.…  Seguir leyendo »

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This past weekend, elections in two states in eastern Germany, Brandenburg and Saxony, saw the populist radical-right party Alternative for Germany surge ahead, though it fell short of wins. Its success has revived an old German — and, indeed, European — debate on how best to counter the rise of the radical right.

Former leader of the Christian Social Union Franz-Josef Strauss once said that in Germany, “No legitimate political party can be right of the CSU.” This claim, which became the mantra of postwar German politics, was based on the idea that if the alliance between the CSU and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union positioned themselves enough to the right, they would be able to win the far-right share of the electorate and forestall the rise of a radical-right party.…  Seguir leyendo »