Europejska prawica traci impet? Trumplash uderza w Le Pen i spółkę
Francuski Rassemblement National nie osiągnął kluczowych celów w lokalnych wyborach, rok przed przełomowymi wyborami prezydenckimi. Porażki prawicy widać szerzej – Meloni przegrała referendum we Włoszech, Janša stracił w Słowenii, a Orbán ma kłopoty na Węgrzech. W Danii największym blokiem okazała się lewica.
France’s National Rally missed key targets in local elections ahead of next year’s seismic presidential vote – and the mainstream is doing OK elsewhere, too• Don’t get This Is Europe delivered to your inbox? Sign up hereThe Rassemblement National is not invincible. A year out from a make-or-break presidential vote, that might be the main lesson (though there are others, which may prove more significant) from last weekend’s local elections in France. What’s more, news elsewhere – Giorgia Meloni’s referendum defeat in Italy, Janez Janša beaten in Slovenia, Hungary’s Viktor Orbán in trouble, the left bloc largest in Denmark – might suggest the rest of Europe’s far right are not having it all their own way, either.But let’s focus first on France – if only because while local elections are rarely a wholly accurate guide to future national outcomes, these ones seem to provide some pointers – and the stakes in the country’s next major election are vertiginously high. Continue reading...