Anti-establishment parties look likely to play a significant role in elections in Slovakia, Poland and the Netherlands
, which votes in October, surveys suggest hopes of forming a majority in the ruling Law and Justice party – self-proclaimed champions of the conservative, Catholic working class – may rest on the even-further-right Confederation.
The fact that each looks likely to play a significant role in forthcoming elections shows just how much more fragmented and, in many cases, polarised, Europe’s politics have become, Fieschi said. “None of the old rules apply, and everything is fluid,” she said. Slovakia’s pro-western government has shown staunch support for Ukraine. But despite corruption allegations, Fico’s Smer-SD – populist, nationalist, socially conservative – is comfortably ahead in the polls on 21%, and has not ruled out governing with the extreme-right, anti-minorities Republic party, in fourth.
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