Flemish Survey: Vlaams Belang Reigns Supreme
Vlaams Belang has capitalized on Flemish discontent with declining living standards as well as their frustration with out-of-touch political elites.
Vlaams Belang has capitalized on Flemish discontent with declining living standards as well as their frustration with out-of-touch political elites.
The political winds have changed. In the wake of President Macron raising the retirement age from 62 to 64, his already dismal approval ratings and popularity have sunk even lower, as two recent surveys reveal.
The right-wing sovereigntist Finns Party (PS) is the now the second most popular party, a few points behind the center-Right National Coalition Party.
“The mood in society is similar to the mood in the GDR at the end of the 1980s, shortly before the collapse of the system,” AfD MP Petr Bystron said while commenting on the survey’s alarming figures.
The opinion poll comes several months after another survey carried out by the same institute revealed that 31% of Germans believe they are living in a “sham democracy” where citizens “have no say.”
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