> [WS:] It goes beyond Austria. Right wing, nationalist/nativist
> anti-immigrant "Festung Europa" parties gained considerably in all EU
> countries.
Well in Ireland you couldn't say that Fine Gael is nationalist :) And Dublin elected a marxist and trotskyite (beating Fianna Fail and Sinn Fein).
> OTOH, voter turnout was exceptionally low, over 50 percent of those
> eligible (including this writer) did not bother to vote - which is
> probably the right thing to do. Populism and its participatory rituals
> suck. I'd rather trust government officials than xenophobic mobs.
I don't get why people lament the percentages that right-wingers get, given the tiny turnouts. The only thing the numbers show is that there is still a lack of a credible alternative to business-as-usual parties.
Yann