The Nordic countries are the retaining wall of the extreme right in the face of the ultra victory in France, Italy or France and the rise of Alternative for Germany, converted into second force. In Finland and Sweden the extreme right is losing strength and achieving a much worse result in the European elections than expected.
In Sweden, the opponent Social Democratic Party has won the election ahead of the conservatives of Prime Minister U’s Moderate Partylf Kristersson, while The far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) has lost support.
The Swedish extreme right party, which is the second force in Parliament and external support for Kristersson’s right-wing government, drops two points to 13.3% of the votes, but maintains its three deputies.
Although the Sweden Democrats fall slightly, it should be noted that the fall of the far-right party is much greater when compared to the parliamentary elections two years ago in which it achieved 20.5% of support.
Remarkable are the results of the greens of the Environment Party, which are positioned as the third force with 13.7% (2.2 points more) and three seats.
Finland
In Finland, andthe conservative party Kokoomus of the current Prime Minister, Petteri Orpo, has clearly won in a European election in which the extreme right of the True Finns lost much of its support popular.
This formation, the second force in the country and a key partner of the conservatives in the Government, has seen how support plummeted when it achieved 7.6% of the votes, compared to 13.8% of the previous European ones, a debacle that caused it to lose one of its two MEPs.
The Big surprise of the day was starred by Left Alliance, which obtained 17.3% of the votes, 10.4 points more than in the 2019 European elections, which placed the party as the second force of the Nordic country in the European Parliament for the first time in its history, going from one to three seats.
Third position went to Social Democratic Party (SDP), the main opposition force, with 14.9% of the votes, two tenths more than in the previous elections, a result that allowed it to retain its two MEPs.
Denmark
In Denmark, where the New Right populists dissolved last February, the green left has achieved a historic victory. The Popular Socialist Party, a red-green political formation, won a clear victory against the social democrats and liberals, the main forces in the government coalition, who suffered a clear setback.
The Prime Minister’s Social Democratic Party, Mette Frederiksen, gave up six points to 15.6%, but kept its three seats, while the Liberal Party, winner in 2019, fell almost nine points to 14.7% and saw his mandates reduced by half, from four to two.
The other force that makes up the government coalition, the Moderate Party, created after the 2019 elections, it achieved 6% and one seat.
Seven other political forces obtained a seat in the European Parliament: the Social Liberal Party, the Conservative Party, the Danish People’s Party, the red-green Unitary List, the Liberal Alliance and Democrats of Denmark, the latter two without representation in the previous elections.
It should be noted that the Danish Prime Minister did not attend the event celebrating her party’s day, after suffering an attack last Friday in the center of Copenhagen by a Polish citizen, in a state of intoxication, at an event, according to the police. “isolated and spontaneous.”
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