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The extreme right has won the European elections in five countries, among them France, Italy and Belgium, founders of the European Union. And in others, like Germany, it has gone further than ever. The most representative case is that of France, where the ultra National Rally party (Rassemblement National, RN) has achieved a historic victory and has put the tol macronism.
Last night, before knowing the final results, French President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly and called early legislative elections after Marine Le Pen’s radical right party became first political force with 31.37% of the votes. That is, with double that of Macron’s liberal coalition, which obtained just 15.20% and was almost in a tie with the Social Democrats.
“I cannot act as if nothing had happened,” Macron said after the electoral debacle. And he added: “The rise of nationalists and demagogues is a danger to our nation, and to Europe.” These words contrast with an image that summarizes the overwhelming victory of the extreme right: that of the map of the Republic dyed in a single color.
Le Pen’s party has already claimed victory in the 2019 Europeans, but he did so with only one point more than Macron’s proposal. Thus, these have been his best results in Europe for 40 years. With his victory he transfers the discontent of the French with Macronism to Brussels. And there are those who even see in this The result is the prelude to a victory for Le Pen in the 2027 presidential elections.
But the rise of RN, until recently a pariah party, It not only represents a challenge to the agenda of the current liberal president, but also to the EU as a whole. He vote in the French country has an important weight in the European Parliament, since it is the second with the highest number of seats (79), behind Germany. And Le Pen will take no more and no less than 30 seats to Brussels.
The extreme right in France.
It is true that the pro-European majority (popular, social democrats, liberals and greens) the guy has managed to endure and appears to be willing to reconfigure itself into the now traditional grand coalition. However, the advance of the extreme right will undoubtedly condition the legislature.
The ultra triumph
In Belgium and Austria the extreme right has also emerged as a leading force. In Belgian far-right party Vlaams Belang was imposed with the 14.6% of the votes, leaving the Flemish nationalist N-VA in second place with 14.1%. In Austria, with an ultra-conservative and anti-immigration discourse, the Freedom Party (FPÖ) has received the most votes.
Something similar has happened in Italy, where the prime minister Giorgia Meloni She was proclaimed the undisputed winner and, now, with her Brothers of Italy party, she will aspire to become the voice of the extreme right within the European Parliament, where she arrives with 24 seats. Without surprises to anyone, the Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orbán, repeated as favorite, although this time he did so with a slim majority, which indicates that his popularity is declining. Austria and Belgium
In Germany, the country with the greatest representation in the European Parliament, the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) climbed to second position, while the party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and that of his main government partner, the Greens, have achieved disastrous results.
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