– We are at the dawn of a referendum that could well end up with the UK exiting the EU. The same thing is happening in Germany. There has been a latent resistance for quite some time, which has increased the first euro crisis and now with the refugee situation is awkward for all governments, he said.
Anders Widfeldt warn to over-interpret the occasional election results. There have been alerted about the right-wing rising winds in many years, but usually calms down the most. He mentions the French presidential elections in 2002 when Jean-Marie Le Pen went to the second round.
– Then there was talk that it was an irresistible wave, but it was not like that. There are other parties over the years, which has also looked to go forward, but then ended up on the exceptions, he says.
– But in the very long term, the right-wing populist parties strengthened and consolidated its position. Above all, there is a trend that is becoming more and more legitimate and more often become the subject of government involvement.
With a stronger right populist influence in Europe, the entire democracy as we know it may change significantly, believes Anders Widfeldt.
– there you can take Poland and Hungary as an example, where you want to control the media, and politicize the judiciary, he said.
– democracy moves from being a liberal democracy with legal guarantees of rights and freedoms, equality before the law, protection of minorities and such things. It becomes more of a direct democracy where the majority of the people control.
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