MAJOR MAINTENANCE WORK – For the university professor at Sciences Po and general director of Fondapol*, Geert Wilders’ victory in the Netherlands is part of a large movement that has been observed at the European level for around twenty years.
* Foundation for Policy Innovation (liberal think tank).
LE FIGARO. – Geert Wilders’ victory surprised many observers. Is that your case? ?
Dominique REYNIE. – No, because for years we have been observing the spread of alternative forms of protest, the electoral version of which is populism. Its beginnings have been visible since the early 2000s, particularly on the right-wing political spectrum. In 1999, the Austrian populists of the FPÖ won 27% of the vote, and the right had no choice but to form a coalition with them; in France, Jean-Marie Le Pen reached the second round of presidential elections on April 21, 2002; In the Netherlands, the forerunner of Wilders’ PVV, the barely created “Pim Fortyun list”, brings together 17% of voters; In the United Kingdom, Ukip became a new key player in the 2004 European elections with 17% of the vote and four MPs etc. Not to mention the driving effect that the…
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