Marine Le Pen (listal.com)
July 15, 2024
At the start of the war in Ukraine, all the leaders of the G-7 nations were arguing for “regime change” in Russia. Well, regime change is happening all right, just not the sort they imagined.
The process started in September 2022 when Italian voters turfed President Mattarella for ‘far-right’ candidate Giorgia Meloni. Meloni has since proved to be a paper tiger, but was elected on a platform of reining in illegal immigration and other populist ideals. Voters were clearly unhappy with the status quo. One Down.
Then in November 2023, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte called a snap election, which he promptly lost. Geert Wilder’s ‘far right’ PVV Party won the most seats, again on a platform of reining in uncontrolled immigration. Though it took several months, eventually a governing coalition of conservative parties was cobbled together. Two down. (Holland is not a member of the G7, but was a strong supporter of mass immigration and the Ukraine war.)
EU elections early in June saw a huge increase in anti-EU and anti-immigration parties all across Europe – most notably Marie le Pen’s Party in France. Though the ‘far right’ didn’t gain a majority, it’s clear the new EU parliament will be much louder, and more fractious than the old one. (I keep putting ‘far-right’ in brackets as a universal media pejorative used to describe parties that would have been referred to in years past as ‘right-wing’ or ‘conservative.’)
Then, following a snap election call, Britons threw out Rishi Sumak on July 4th – the third British PM to fall since the start of the Ukraine war – following in the footsteps of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. Three down.
Though it was touted as a ‘left wing’ Labour victory, the Labour Party actually received fewer votes than it received five years previously during Jeremy Corbyn’s catastrophic Labour Party defeat.
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