, the AfD’s gains were notable while support from the youngest voters for the Green Party barely changed. France’s vote showed similar trends.
Louis Beernaert, 27, has been coming to Vlaams Belang meetings with his father and sister since he was a child. Now his sister’s husband and their toddler have joined also. They were all in favor of the party’s new faces, which include its 32-year-old president, Tom Van Grieken. Even though migration to Europe has slowed to a trickle, the continent is still grappling with the after-effects of the hundreds of thousands of people who arrived in the past few years alone. Belgium’s foreign-born population went from just under 12 percent to nearly 17 percent between 2006 and 2017, not including people who slipped in illegally. In France, asylum requests last year topped out at 123,625 — an increase of 23 percent from 2017, when they had already risen 17 percent.
“Another challenge of our generation will be immigration. Confronted with the demographic bomb that is Africa, it is the survival of our peoples, our civilizations, our Christian roots that is at stake today,” the National Rally candidate tweetedMarine Le Pen re-branded her father’s far-right National Front party as the National Rally after losing the presidency to Emmanuel Macron in 2017.
“So many young voters across Europe don’t believe the future will be better than today and they believe the past was better than today,” he said, citing repeated surveys. “The current European Union or the parties don’t offer a credible or attractive vision for the future for the young.”
In contrast, here in America the far-right wants to simply turn back the clock 25 years.
Nah. The Vox party is not doing anything.
The far right is a cancer.
Good idea.
What’s the deal, bigheadspence ? What would 18 year old Big Head say about this? SpainInTheAss
Can we just start calling the global fat-right an old bitter white man?
welp! America is a bag of dicks! so can we!
Not good
This woman could tell you everything you’d need to know about Trump’s finances. She’s “one of the most trusted people inside Trump Tower” and has “heard everything, and taken good notes.” Subpoena/Interview her today.