Does the Populist Voter Revolt in Europe Portend the Same for U.S.?
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 13 June 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:29.8 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:37.0 | A voter uprising in Europe in elections for the European Parliament. |
| 0:44.0 | Isn't a harbinger of what will happen in the United States in November. |
| 0:49.0 | Plus the G7 leaders meet this week in Italy, but what does it say about Western democracy when the most |
| 0:55.6 | popular leader is the Prime Minister of Italy? |
| 0:58.7 | Welcome, I'm Paul Geego, editor of the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal and I'm here with my colleagues |
| 1:04.8 | Bill McGurn and London-based Joe Sternberg. So elections in the European Parliament usually |
| 1:10.9 | don't mean much since that Parliament doesn't have much power. |
| 1:15.3 | Power still resides for the most part in the national governments. But this one was an exception |
| 1:20.8 | and the results are having repercussions in several countries |
| 1:24.0 | especially in France where President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National |
| 1:29.0 | Assembly to hold new elections this month after his party took a drubbing to the Conservative National Rally Party in the elections. |
| 1:38.2 | But Joe Steppingman, it'll just focus on France, but sort of looking at the whole result. Gains by the right parties, |
| 1:45.1 | losses for the left, and the center sort of did okay. What's the main message you |
| 1:50.8 | took away from the voters? So just to explain quickly to listeners exactly what's at stake here. |
| 1:56.0 | We have Europeans across 27 member countries in the European Union voting for 720 members of the European Parliament, which is the |
| 2:04.8 | block's top legislative body. And you're absolutely right, Paul, that historically |
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