The Nordic countries built a wall against the far right in the European elections, as well as in the FinlandO Sweden and the Denmark far-right parties saw their percentages decrease significantly.
In Sweden, the far right The “Swedish Democrats” received 13.2% of the vote and three seats in the European Parliament, but their electoral strength decreased by 2.1% compared to the previous elections in 2019. The retreat of far right party This is much higher compared to the parliamentary elections two years ago, in which he obtained 20.5%.
In Finland, the far-right party “True Finns» also suffered a defeat by winning 7.6% and one MEP of the two he had in 2019, having then received 13.8%.
However, the big surprise in Finland was carried out by Left Alliance, which won 17.3% of the vote – 10.4% more than in the 2019 European elections, increasing seats from one to three. The Left Alliance emerged as the second force in yesterday’s European elections.
In Denmark, the far-right populists of the “New Right” dissolved last February and did not participate in the European elections.
In fact, the first power arose Green Left -a red-green political formation- which obtained 17.4%, against the social democrats and liberals, the main forces of the government coalition, who suffered clear withdrawal.
Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen’s Social Democratic Party fell six percentage points to 15.6% but retained its three seats. The Liberal Party, which won the 2019 European elections, fell almost nine points, to 14.7%, and saw its seats drop from four to two.