Another huge landslide for the right in Europe - this time it is Serbia

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Another huge landslide for the right in Europe - this time it is Serbia

Published: Monday, December 18th, 2023 @ 8:34 am
By: John Steed ( More Entries )

The parade of major victories for the right in European elections continues, this time with Serbia's parliamentary election held yesterday.

The populist / nationalist right Serbian Progressive Party won 48% of the vote and is projected to win 130 seats in the 250 seat parliament, double the vote of its main rival, a broad opposition coalition of left, center-left, and center-right parties, which received 24%. Also on the right, the conservative monarchist NADA party recevied 5.2% of the vote and the populist / nationalist right Mi-GIN 4.8%. A party of the right representing ethnic Hungarians is also expected to win 5 seats with almost 2% of the vote.. The only other significant party winning seats was the Socialist Party of Serbia with 5.8%

https://rmx.news/article/serbia-ruling-conservatives-achieve-sweeping-victory/

https://europeanconservative.com/articles/news/serbia-populist-right-declares-landslide-victory/

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Steven P. Rader said:

( December 18th, 2023 @ 8:23 pm )

Political terms in Europe often have different meanings than in the US. In Europe, "progress" or "progressive" are often found in names of parties of the right as the winning party in Serbia. This began in Denmark fifty years ago, when Danish millionaire tax lawyer Mogens Glistrup founded the Progress Party, which ran on a three point platform of "abolish the income tax, abolish the welfare state, and fire the bureaucracy", coming in a strong second place in the party's first parliamentary election contest. Glistrup's run away success led Norwegian dog kennel owner Anders Lange to form a similar party at the last minute before a Norwegian parliamentary election, running on a shoestring and winning two seats. That party changed its name to the Progressive Party, and also adopted a very strong anti-immigration message and has been a player in Norwegian politics since, joining several coalition governments.

Of course, the term "progressive" was a key political term of the Soviets who used it to define a combination of card carrying communist party members and fellow travellers who followed a similar ideology but were not actual party members.

The term "liberal" is used differently in Europe than in America. What Americans would call a "liberal" in Europe would be called a "socialist" or "social democrat". The term in Europe still generally means what Americans now call a "classical liberal", which includes support of small government, low taxes, free enterprise, and individual liberty.

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