Summer special: Who votes for the European far right? And why?

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POLITICO

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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While the podcast takes a little break, we bring this insightful episode back into your feed — unpacking details of who votes for the far right in Europe. We unpack what drives voters to abandon the mainstream and more traditional party loyalties for the far right, and how poverty, or fear of it, motivates typical supporters of the AfD in Germany, Geert Wilders’ PVV in the Netherlands, or Chega in Portugal. Host Sarah Wheaton is joined by POLITICO reporters Hanne Cokelaere, James Angelos and Aitor Hernández-Morales, who were recently dispatched to countries where far-right parties are gaining ground ahead of the recent European election. Later on we have a fascinating conversation with Catherine de Vries, professor of political science and dean of international affairs at Bocconi University in Milan. Her research focuses on how economic hardship and problems with public services such as schools, health care or transport can fuel the far right. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.8	So today we'd like to bring you an episode we did back in May, just before the European
0:36.1	elections.
0:37.1	Back then, in the heat of the campaign,
0:39.1	everyone was talking about the coming far-right surge, and it did come, though perhaps it wasn't as
0:44.4	big as tsunami as some had predicted. The far-right is not running Europe, but it's definitely
0:49.8	more powerful in the European Parliament and in European politics in general. And they were successful
0:55.2	in part by recruiting new types of supporters. We begin the episode by sketching out a stereotypical
1:00.9	far-right voter, only to say that these fuzzy descriptions are no longer valid. It's the young voters,
1:07.4	it's the women, sometimes it's even the migrants who think the far right might
1:11.3	have the answers they're looking for. Enjoy the show. We'll be back with the new episodes on
1:16.6	the 23rd of August. So we've got these kind of stereotypes when we talk about far right voters.
1:26.2	You've got the like brown shirt, angry, neo-Nazi skinhead type.
1:31.3	He's white.
1:32.3	He's aggressive.
1:33.4	He's angry.
1:34.4	He's racist.
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