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Far-right victories in Greece highlight trend across Europe (www.nbcnews.com)

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In Greece, while the ruling center-right New Democracy Party won a landslide victory, with 40.5% of the vote, its triumph was overshadowed by the success of the Spartans, a recently formed far-right nativist group that gained 12 seats in Greece’s 300-seat Parliament.

The Brothers of Italy last year became the first far-right party to win an Italian election since World War I.

Earlier this month, the anti-immigration Finns Party entered a four-party coalition to rule in Finland.

In September 2022 Sweden saw the hard-right populist Sweden Democrats win more than 20% of the vote to become the country’s second-biggest party.

The far-right Vox Party in Spain is expected to do well in national elections next month, hovering around 14% in opinion polls. In 2019, the party won 15% of the vote and 52 lawmakers.

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) can count on the support of about 20% of the German public, according to opinion polls; on Sunday, it won an important regional election in the eastern state of Thuringia.

Last year Marine Le Pen, the then-leader of the National Assembly, came closer than ever to becoming France’s first far-right president.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds a lot like Germany in the early 1900s.