Elections in India and the European Union in recent days have resulted in some sweeping wins for politicians with strident nationalist messages. Anti-immigrant rhetoric abounds. The out-of-touch elites are savaged. The middle ground is crumbling.
In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi easily secured a second term, shrugging off a challenge from the Congress Party, which attempted to paint him as a threat to India’s secular pluralism, as voters responded to Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) doubling-down on Hindu nationalism and anti-Muslim rhetoric.
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Across the European Union, populist, euroskeptic and anti-immigrant parties made major gains over the weekend. In the UK — where most voters never expected to be taking part in these elections — the Brexit Party, led by arch EU critic Nigel Farage, swept the board. A similar result was seen in France and Italy, where Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN) and Matteo Salvini’s League came out on top.
Source: Analysis: World’s largest democracies tilt towards populism
