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France’s far-right Front National stormed to victory in European elections
on Sunday night, leading an unprecedented surge in support for anti-EU
parties across Europe that was set to reverberate far beyond Brussels
politics.
The FN, led by Marine Le Pen, was one of four anti-establishment parties to
finish top in their country’s EU parliamentary elections. Britain’s UK
Independence party, led by the bombastic former commodities broker Nigel
Farage, came first, as did Denmark’s far-right Danish People’s party and
Greece’s radical leftist Syriza.
At a glance: MEP seats for anti EU/anti immigration parties (Source: Open
Europe) Party Country No of seats Domestic vote ranking
Ukip UK 24 1st
FN France 24 1st
Golden Dawn Greece 5 3rd
*Alternative for Deutschland Germany 7 *Anti-euro but not anti-
EU
Freedom Netherlands 4 3rd
Freedom Austria 4 3rd
True Finns Finland 2 3rd
Vlaams Belang Belgium 1 8th
People’s Denmark 4 1st
The populist parties that will make up at least a quarter of the new
parliament are a polyglot group, ranging from the far left – Syriza took 26
.5 per cent while the largely unknown Podemos party stunned Spain by taking
8 per cent – to the ultranationalist right – Hungary’s Jobbik finished
second with 14.7 per cent and Greece’s neo-Nazi Golden Dawn finished third
with 9.4 per cent.
But taken together, their success ate into the normally comfortable lead
Europe’s three traditional mainstream parties maintain in Brussels. Even
the election’s victors, German chancellor Angela Merkel’s centre-right
European People’s party, saw their support drop 7 percentage points
compared with five years ago.
At a glance: MEP seats for leftwing/anti austerity parties (Source: Open
Europe) Party Country MEP seats Domestic vote ranking
Five Star Italy 18 2nd
Syriza Greece 8 1st
Podemos Spain 5 4th
United Left Spain 5 3rd
In Britain, Ukip’s victory was the first time since 1906 that a party other
than the Conservatives or Labour had won a national election. Mr Farage
said his party was no longer a splinter group but the “third force” in
national politics ahead of the 2015 general election.
Fabian Zuleeg, head of the Brussels-based European Policy Centre, said the
results “mean major difficulties for the European integration project,
particularly because of France”.
“The mainstream parties are all now going to try to attract the anti-EU
vote,” he said. “That isn’t working, but the argument we’re hearing
already is: ‘We didn’t go far enough’.”
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No result is likely to have a bigger impact on Brussels than Ms Le Pen’s
victory in France, which along with Germany is a co-founder of the EU and
the engine that has driven the European project for half a century.
France’s President François Hollande brought together his key
ministers for an emergency inner cabinet meeting on Monday morning to
discuss the election results. Before the meeting, Manuel Valls, the prime
minister, said the EU must react to the breakthrough by the FN and other
eurosceptic parties.
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“I am convinced that Europe can reorientate to give greater support to
growth and employment, which it has failed to do for years,” he said in a
radio interview. He promised more tax cuts in France.
A handful of populist parties performed below expectations, particularly in
Italy where the anti-establishment Five Star Movement led by comedian Beppe
Grillo finished a distant second to the centre-left Democrats of Prime
Minister Matteo Renzi, who nearly doubled Mr Grillo’s total with a
commanding 40.1 per cent of the vote.
Similarly, the Freedom party of anti-Muslim provocateur Geert Wilders
finished third in the Netherlands at 13 per cent despite spending weeks
leading opinion polls.
Italian stocks rose following the count, while the euro edged higher as
markets shrugged off electoral gains for eurosceptic and anti-austerity
parties across the continent.
Still, the number and breadth of the populist gains were unexpected. In
France, FN took 26 per cent of the vote, with the main opposition UMP on 21
per cent and the governing Socialists on 14 per cent.
FN is likely to become the fourth-largest party in the new European
Parliament, taking 25 of France’s 74 seats, and Britain’s Ukip is
projected to become the fifth-largest – as of early Monday, it had won 23
seats.
But other, smaller groups surprised as well. In Germany, where anti-EU
sentiment has historically never been a serious part of the national debate,
the eurosceptic Alternative for Germany party polled better than expected
with 7 per cent of the vote, enough to win seven seats in the new parliament.
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In Spain, where despite sky-high unemployment following years of gruelling
austerity the two mainstream parties were expected to dominate, the ruling
centre-right Popular party saw its support cut in half to just 26 per cent.
Podemos, a far left party headed by a political-science professor, took
nearly 8 per cent and the United Left party came in third with 10 per cent.
The head of Spain’s centre-left Socialist party, Afredo Pérez Rubalcaba,
became the election’s first casualty on Monday, resigning in the wake of
his party’s weak 23 per cent showing.
In Ireland, Eamon Gilmore, the leader of the Labour party, deputy prime
minister and foreign minister, prepared to step down after the junior member
of the ruling coalition saw its vote slump to about 7 per cent – half of
what it secured at the last general election.
His impending resignation will rock the coalition government, which was
already struggling to maintain public support for austerity measures to
restore Ireland’s financial health. Enda Kenny, the prime minister,
acknowledged the “frustration and anger” of voters in the election, who
flocked to anti-austerity parties.
Austria’s far-right Freedom party was set to finish third with 20 per cent
of the vote – against 12.7 per cent in 2009.
“Populist politicians such as Mr Farage and Ms Le Pen are winning so many
votes because they are the anti-establishment voice,” said Tim Newark,
author of Protest Vote. “Voters are fed up with mainstream party
politicians who all sound the same and can deliver very little. The
populists have an authenticity about what they say . . .&#
8201;voters like that.”
Pablo Iglesias, the leader of Podemos, vowed on Sunday night to work closely
with deputies from other southern European countries hit by the crisis: “
We don’t want to be a colony of Germany and the troika [the European
Commission, European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund],” he
told cheering supporters
Additional reporting by Tobias Buck in Madrid and Vincent Boland in Dublin |
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