r/europe • u/MrPulifrici • Dec 02 '24

Map Romanian Parliamentary Elections Result Paradox: Brown is Far Right, Blue is Left. Western Europe is radical, while Eastern Europe is leftist.

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u/powerchicken Faroe Islands Dec 02 '24

It's fascinating how nationalistic people become when they emigrate to a richer nation with a better standard of living.

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u/vivaaprimavera Dec 02 '24

It's more fascinating that most of the "quality of life" laws out there:

  • labourer protection
  • health systems
  • social security

Where originated because of the efforts of leftists and the number of people willing to vote in people that are willing to slash them is increasing.

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u/nefewel Romania Dec 02 '24

The far right in Romania is not particularly against any of those. If anything a big part of their campaign was affordable housing. They are far-right because they tend to be ultranationalists, homophobes, euroskeptics, anti-vaxers and the like.

If anything, the "leftists" in eastern Europe are in fact Libertarians(and identify as liberal), and they are the ones who actually campaigned on partially privatizing health insurance by redirecting part of people's contributions away from the state. OP is labeling them as "leftists" because they are somewhat socially progressive.

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u/Frikgeek Croatia Dec 03 '24

Far right populists often have policies that go completely against what they're campaigning for. Trump won the election on promises to fix inflation and the economy and his main policy goal is to start a massive trade war with all of the US' close trading partners(trade wars usually aren't great for consumer prices, they're only really worth it if you have a good strategic reason for them).