New Poll Suggests Populist Advance in 2024 EU Elections
The decline of the European political centre continues, albeit at a modest pace as a potential ECR-EPP alliance will likely be a major point of contention following next year’s elections.
The decline of the European political centre continues, albeit at a modest pace as a potential ECR-EPP alliance will likely be a major point of contention following next year’s elections.
AfD MP Petr Bystron said the poll results are “fully in line with the pan-European trend, populist parties are on the rise everywhere.”
The opinion poll comes as new immigration legislation, which was supposed to be one of the main items on the National Assembly’s agenda between now and July 14th, has been postponed until autumn due to a lack of majority support.
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.
Compared to last year, a significantly larger number of Germans fear being pulled into a war with Russia, according to The Security Report 2023.
Norway’s apparent rightward political shift mirrors similar trends witnessed across other Nordic states like Sweden and Finland.
“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.”
The wish for peace talks prevails among voters of every political party represented in the Bundestag.
“Germany is dangerously approaching a tipping point. If the majority of the population has a migration background, our country will change significantly,” CDU lawmaker Stefan Heck said.
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