All 2024 European Elections Ranked: Who Really Won? (Part 1)

[@EUMadeSimple]

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[@spasarsov3046]

Hello. I'd like to point out that in Bulgaria we seem to have officially formed a coalition government yesterday.

[@szilardecsenyi516]

This video contains a glaring mistake. I live in Hungary, and we know very well that the ruling Fidesz party is as far from being right-wing as it gets. Its economic policy is heavily infused with communist, socialist, and paternalistic elements-not to mention price controls, a planned economy approach, extremely high taxes, and an incredibly bloated and self-serving state bureaucracy. In every measure of left-wing ideology, Fidesz scores high. For the record, there is a right-wing party in Hungary, but it is not represented in Parliament. Their name is 'Down with 75% of Taxes Party,' and they identify as libertarians.

[@Avantelvsitania]

Please pin a comment with an update including Portugal’s election.

[@PlayTheColorfulCreature]

ew ai

[@micklenier6152]

ah sh!t here we go again...

[@vasilzahariev5741]

Bulgaria is so democratic it has 2 elections every year.

[@SilentEire]

“The more the merrier” 🗳️

[@Pidalin]

Only 2? What about local government and mayor elections? Local referendums, senate elections, EU elections and 20 other elections like we have here in Czechia. 😀 Also, it often happens that highest court says taht election in some villages have to be repeated, so these people spend more time by voting than by working. 😀

[@nikolay9001]

@@Pidalin Actually you summed it up quite correct. We had way too many elections in those 3 - 4 years, not only parliamentary... Unfortunate and really "democratic" indeed.

[@travelertuber9487]

And almost no solutions like many other less developed nations while some other rulers with no elections or them at their advantage ironically do more in less time...

[@Floppedd]

😭

[@Spath_G]

I disagree with you giving no points to the French far right, it did get less seats than expected, but it was still a sharp increase compared to the last elections

[@EUMadeSimple]

True. After i finished the video I thought the same :) So maybe 6 points for them would be fairer.

[@andrewreynolds912]

Exactly, I have to agree here as a socialist who follows politics closely. This made me but bitter to see

[@andrewreynolds912]

​@EUMadeSimple I think if you look at hasanpiker who did good coverage on it could give you better view on it

[@andrewreynolds912]

​@EUMadeSimple please check him out he recently did a interview with Bernie sanders himself piker is great at covering politics however mostly american or such as issues irl all over the world

[@andrewreynolds912]

​@@EUMadeSimple he did do good coverage on the French election last year

[@JayTeeEN]

Kinda cursed to put Slovakia in the Left camp. Left in Slovakia is nationalist and socially conservative + they work with the Far-Right.

[@zavaraninoveuhorky]

i mean they act like leftist party (stealing). Fico was in the central commitee of the Slovak communist party (slovak branch of the communist party of czechoslovakia, later it renamed itself into the slovak democratic left party which then turned into the smer-sd party)

[@Zombiemancz]

Dont forget that CCP is technically leftist too.

[@jezusbloodie]

Yea i really dislike the overly simplified "Left vs Right", when it really should be "Social Left vs Social Right and Economic Left vs Economic Right". Ideally, an axis for authoritharian and liberal too, but using a 3D compass maybe a bit too much

[@Nhkg17]

Slovakia is behaving like the typical far right, only they call themselves social democrats. Moreover, the far right is very often indistinguishable from far left.

[@Aggoenix]

As someone from Czechia which is extremely close to Slovakia and the language is almost identical ill explain. In the western Europe left wing parties are usually liberal and proeuropean. But in post-socialist/ex-eastern Europe left wing parties are often mixed with social conservatism, nationalism and euroscepticism. Its like - "we want a big state that will take care of us, we want a lot of things for free, we are conservative (so big no to gay marriage, migrants or soft drugs legal and dont like the EU - its stealing our sovereignity)". These left wing nationally conservative parties are usually voted by older people, pensioneers and socially weaker people - old people tend to be conservative, but also want bigger pensions and free healthcare, free services. And they often dislike EU, idk why, but in CZ or SK EU is liked by younger people, while middle gen is often soft-eurosceptic and old people hard-euroskeptic.

[@SirDiogo07]

Where is Portugal? It had elections this year on 10 March 2024 in parliament and prime minister divisions. Yes, it was because the previous government collapsed earlier than expected because of corruption and scandals, but it was still important for the Portugal political shift of the modern day Europe and how young people represent in political landscape in Portugal.

[@EUMadeSimple]

You are right :( We simply forgot. I dont know how that happned and we are sorry.

[@EdwardMorgan-gf8bk]

@@EUMadeSimple Portugalbros…

[@EUMadeSimple]

Worst part is, we even have someone Portuguese in the team :/. Should ahve asked him to review. Sorry everyone.

[@thefreerocketman5777]

@@EUMadeSimple now you owe us a video focused exclusively on the Portuguese elections (just kidding... or am I?)

[@EUMadeSimple]

haha - If this comment gets >300 likes I will consider it ;)

[@robbecaerts824]

It's insane how you say "Belgium has way too many parties", and yet, as a Belgian, I'm still waiting for a party to raise which I mostly agree with...

[@theortafou]

Je comprends bien, ik begrijp goed. I'm allowed to vote for the french parties, so I voted "Les engagés" because of their center but rational leanings. I mostly agree with them but it is hard to see who can really help the people. I don't believe in extremist parties so that helped. I think they bring simple solutions to complex problems and that it is far easier to follow them but that doesn't help democracy or the people in the long term. It's just a show. No party is perfect but yeah... I find myself in the center.

[@sebbvell3426]

Rice*

[@oPlazmaMC]

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is, that in a democracy, you choose who oppresses you

[@crowstick]

⁠@@sebbvell3426rise*

[@EuropeanQoheleth]

I know the feel. I used to support Aontu but then they went on with all that anti-immigration stuff. (Different country but still).

[@Avantelvsitania]

You forgot Portugal’s legislative election in March. The center-right coalition won against the previous center-left government. Also, the hard-right quadrupled their seats (12 to 50). That would mean a point for both the right and far right camps, and minus one point for the left camp. This alters entirely the conclusions from your video. I’d sugest you pin a comment with the updated points or redoing the video entirely. Edit: Thank you for the correction video.

[@Chrysobubulle]

He also gave 2 points for the left and far left in France claiming they won the snap election, when in reality the left coalition hasn’t won seats enough to govern by themselves, and indeed they haven’t been part of any governments since the snap election, both governments so far have been center right. It’s very hard to distribute points when it comes to France cause: - the left coalition technically has more mp than the other groups, but hasn’t enough to govern or overthrow the government by themselves. - Macron’s center and the “classical” right have technically lost many seats, but in the end, they are still the ones in power - Le Pen Rassemblement National is technically the biggest party in the parliament (the left as more seats as a coalition of parties but no party of the left have more deputy than the far right), they have won many seats. But they aren’t the ones governing. At the same time they are the kingsmaker; the last government fell only because they voted with the left the motion of non confidence. So it’s very hard to tell who won, and actually no one did. But what is sure is that the left didn’t win. And that these two points are a fabrication to manipulate the conclusion of this video, and its audience

[@stefanuc50]

In Romania the far-right got a total of 36% it should have been a point for them

[@gabrieldragu811]

The far-right has 3 parties. We have far-right diversity programs 😂😂😂 take that, progressives 🤣

[@Chadrick2]

@@gabrieldragu811 Hate that every European country has like 2-3 right wing parties so we all vote different ones.

[@nottoktik]

​@@gabrieldragu811All 3 are controlled by the only centre-left party we have, PSD. POT is losing members to PSD and the other 2 vote whatever PSD proposes.

[@megakillpt1332]

Portugal fliped from a center left to a center right, so -1 point for the center left and +1 point for the center right, and also the far right quadrupled their seats, so id call that a +1 for the far right

[@PyroAdri]

As a French, I totally disagree with you for not giving point to the french far right. As even though they didn't win the elections, it's a historical push for the far-right as the Macronistes and the NFP were doing a alliances to not let Rassemblement Nationale get more deputies. (Also as I am watching the news to see how the Assemblée nationale and see if the socialist will leave the NFP or the new government collaspe...)

[@EUMadeSimple]

Yes I could have definitely done so

[@summerset9984]

far right is when not importing immigrants. Remind me what is currently happening at the Gaîté Lyrique theatre?

[@PyroAdri]

@summerset9984 As you probably know, there 300 migrants in that theatre, they claim to be unaccompanied minors (that probably a lie for atleast 90% of them) and organized by left-wing activists. (that for sure...) and there a lack of intervention by the national government... and just to say, I don't support any actual french parties as I watch my country burn.

[@noah3640_]

@@EUMadeSimple it's strange to give a point to the far-left when they only got 2% of the vote in the parliamentary election and has no seat at the assembly

[@MalaPalabra-zr6wg]

33% of London population are British natives 55% of Paris population are French natives

[@pewialmostdie3631]

i love how every anti immigration just doesnt want to mention the favt that many natives had left london or paris for cheaper cities or the countryside, whilst tor immigrants londom is the first city they are taken too, also for minority majority cities like bradford birimingham lille etc, the natives had left the city during reccessions like 80s , 92, 2008 etc, making the city cheaper for immigrants.

[@Megidolaon_]

@@pewialmostdie3631 Is immigration good for the UK?

[@awreckedislethisfunction7748]

@@pewialmostdie3631 words words words. And yet, nothing of substance.

[@FullTankg]

And in United States there's no Native majority city

[@MapsCharts]

​@@FullTankg Who asked ?

[@Jurjen.]

You showed the European alliances alongside the national parties. KUDOS 😃

[@EUMadeSimple]

I did it for you ;)

[@Diamond-vy1lx]

Actually a good video because of that, I was pleased Then the Romanian election came... I want democracy to resume here man

[@Jurjen.]

@@Diamond-vy1lx Yeah we all do. Give it time. Democracy must grow.

[@velosoph02]

Calling Ursula von der leyen Centre Right is totally nonsensical

[@florinradulescu4661]

Why?

[@MapsCharts]

Far left in France 😂😂😂😂 When the far-right got 35 % crushed all the opposition gained seats and made the president dissolve the parliament

[@JayTeeEN]

I think you should have ranked by European groups. This would still have been a subjective grouping but I feel like only having center-right and Far-Right and center-left and far-left is not a good system especially for parties on the left-wing and right-wing that have radical proposals but are pro-democracy

[@wolnyczowiek8705]

EPP is right leaning? Since when? It's definitely left.

[@csabakis4214]

There was NO (presidential) election in Hungary -> first of all, it is NOT an election when the new figures is "elected" by the parliament, whoever controls the parliament currently gets its candidate elected ... before the Fidesz-era, before 2010, there was some political debate, nowadays there is nothing -> btw the president is just a quite weightless figurehead, I did not even bother to memorize the new names, such unimportant they are ...

[@Pidalin]

Czech elections in 2025 will be like: far everything

[@CheeseBaggel]

Very nice video! However i must say that the election in Romania was technically a win for the far right as the Government only maintains a 4 seat majority down from a majority of 46 seats and the junior coalition party ( PNL) went from 2nd place to third. Also i wouldn't consider PSD a left wing party as most of its polciies are right wing even though they're part of S&D group

[@B-S-H]

At 15:07, with the French election, would I actually consider giving points to the Far right (and maybe center right, too)? The Left was made up of multiple diverse parties, while RN + The Repulicans combined got 181 over the left's 180. Edit: I would also say you were more liberal towards giving the left points at the EU election.

[@EUMadeSimple]

yes, I think I could have

[@shreksophone1413]

@@EUMadeSimple The RN got 33% of votes, of course strategic voting modified the results, but percentage wise, the RN ended up first with NFP around 28%, also lets not forget RN is a single party and had 142 seats while the NFP is composed of i think 16 parties if i remember great and got only 38 seats more. Overall this election really proved the far right is winning in terms of popular vote and that next election, it could possibly have a majority or even win the presidency

[@GuilhermePereira-vi6vc]

​​@@shreksophone1413if the left hadn't join literally more than 10 parties between themselves and the liberals like 4 or 5 and then collaborated between themselves using electoral tricks to maximize the number of seats, everyone knows RN would have got a huge majority with the number of votes they got, it wouldn't even be close. But I guess we can't have working democracies in Europe in 2024. That would be the will of the native French and we can't have that anymore

[@Diamond-vy1lx]

Everyone in France gets +1 except Macron and his party which get -1

[@Diamond-vy1lx]

​​@@shreksophone1413with tactical voting the secound round was more like RN losing 37% to 50% to both NFP and Macron's party, twice! (do the math, it's actually close to this)

[@JensImpulsive]

If you honestly think a Belgian federal government will ever be formed including Vlaans Belang, you have no clue whatsoever about Belgian politics

[@hydrusalphy4654]

I was skeptical of the video concept, but this turned out to be a surprisingly fun watch. Maybe you could do something like this again at the end of 2025? My own country goes to vote at February 23rd, and there will definitely be a lot to discuss there in terms of shifts.

[@EUMadeSimple]

If people like the video then we will :). Glad you enjoyed it.

[@baptiste7653]

Which country?

[@samuelpaulini]

I would say Caputova is more left-leaning than Pelegrini as she openly promotes strong environmentalism and queer rights.

[@Aggoenix]

But Caputova was liberal proeuropean center-left, Pelegrini is more like conservative center-left, soft eurosceptic, while Fico is conservative left wing nationalist-populist. Its like AfD meets Social Democrats lol. Slovakian goverment is pretty conservative and kinda nationalistic/eurosceptic.

[@RokasStulga]

I am pretty sure in Slovakia, left doesnt mean being "pro-queer" and environmentalism. like most countries in East and Central Europe, left is a lot more conservative in social issues then the western parties. for example in Lithuania, for those views there are Greens and Liberal parties. not the left. left is usually socially conservative, economically left. ps. ow you are Slovak yourself? so tell me how it is 😅

[@samuelpaulini]

@RokasStulga Caputova is originally from my party / Progressive Slovakia and if you look at Hlas policies they are only left-leaning at first glance. In truth, it is a status quo party. Progressivism has the same if not bigger claim to a rising standard of living through state policies as do the pro-business types fixated on rustical ways of delivering social programs. The claim is equal if not greater since social and environmental justice is clearly addressing issues of the poorest and most marginalized communities of this age... You cannot take leftism without emancipation. You would end up just with a totalitarian regime. Exact thing Fico is trying. But he is just a kleptocratic populist, a crony.

[@Muf315]

I disagree. Caputova is more right-leaning.She is liberal, what is generally supported as right-wing ideology. Also she is less fan of social issus than Pelegrini.

[@Tomas-j8r]

​@@Aggoenix pelegriny neni moc konzervativny on je taky stred keby neni kamos s ficom moze byt kludne v saske

[@raketoplantv182]

Slovak here: Pellegrini running as an independent is straight up a lie, he had his own party (google Hlas-SD) and there was a mini-scandal after the election because he forgot to leave the party believing he only had to do so after taking office, when in reality he had to do it within 24 hours of the results being announced (he ended up doing it in around 35). At the same time, while I agree that Pellegrini is Left leaning, Fico and Smer are definetly Far-Right without question (and Pellegrini has proven to be Ficos lap dog since, not that it was in doubt even before)

[@nilsjansson1650]

Time to make europe great again.

[@berkcan8861]

As of Today Coalition in Bulgaria is 99% done, GERB-APS-ITN-BSP

[@JayTeeEN]

I am shocked ITN is still a thing

[@johnplays9654]

It will be a triple coalition GERB-SDS, BSP and ITN. APS will only support the coalition.

[@Andre-zw5kl]

This formate was really good. I love the video and I'm looking forward for more alike

[@Donderu]

I find the left/right dichotomy to be too restrictive. There should be an axis of social conservatism/liberalism, and an economic left/right

[@amied7361]

Like the political compass?

[@teaser6089]

"It's getting harder to catagorize parties into left or right" Yeah that's because political channels keep refusing to use the ACTUAL political compas, which has Right-Left, Conservative-Progresive axis and instead pretend there is just left and right...

[@frontrider3240]

Yap. When "center" starts a little bit to the right of stalin you get a different result than you should. When you put a party that is economically very left leaning, but ideologically right-er (right as in they do the exact same actions the left does just on different ideal to the point where it is not very distinguishable) into far right then you have an issue.

[@teaser6089]

@@frontrider3240 The poltical compas has 2 axis, Left-Right economically, Conservative-Progresive socially.

[@Onionsbase]

From 2nd episod, back to this episod. Congrats for this briefings and for the whole work!

[@carraway8084]

As a French, I would have given a point to the far right as well since they basically dictate the centre’s policy, as the left (and not far left, there is no revolutionary party in the NFP) refused to compromise themselves with the very unpopular government.

[@VillaDish]

One of my favourite videos yet! Been looking forward to this one

[@EUMadeSimple]

Glad to hear it :)

[@AbelDimitriev]

I see how everybody talking about how far right is increasing and far right parties won, but i don’t see a single far right law. So what is far right then ?

[@mrworldwide7387]

exactly because they aren't in power yet they are part of the government in a few countries, but most of the time tied to a more moderate liberal conservative party the only country where the far-right is truly in power is Italy

[@AbelDimitriev]

@ ok, and what far right laws are now in Italy ?

[@reiltinpierse]

Loving this video! It was so interesting and helpful. At 12:38 you pronounced fatigue incorrectly, it’s supposed to be pronounced like fuh-teeg Then at 18:59, I really like your effort into putting in the hard “R”, well done! With our party names, I know they’re in Irish so absolutely no pressure but just letting you know: Fianna Fáil = Feena fall Sinn Féin = Shin fain Fine Gael = Fina Gail

[@EUMadeSimple]

Yes! Thank you! :) the pronunciation is very difficult haha. As for fatigue - no idea what happened there :)

[@inzamamulhaque9383]

I actually kinda understand why right wing is rise in Europe most of their traditional right wing parties would technically consider center-left than right wing

[@andreasgeorgiou4940]

@@inzamamulhaque9383 that's the dumbest thing i ever heard

[@erwinhun]

Excellent video 👌

[@ShadowBlitz776]

I think we should stop using the left-right political spectrum

[@MinecraftFan963]

Nah, we should just correct it lol. Labeling Fond Of Lyin' right wing? 😂

[@ShadowBlitz776]

What can even be corrected about it?

[@MinecraftFan963]

@ShadowBlitz776 Keeping the left on the left and not lying to the people

[@omegaroleplayer1022]

@ShadowBlitz776 hitler was left wing (a communist) socialists want to smear the name of the far-right when all that they want is a pure ethnostate and no immigrants

[@fegonza154]

we have a solution, the political compass, but everyone would like to position themselves on the liberal side, and when you point out their authoritative behaviours everyone would cry, left and right is easier to understand and most of the time people agree with most of the connotations

[@knuttella]

thanks for the breakdown!

[@la1sk203]

Baltics being ruled by essentially libertarians is definitely a cultural feature of ours.

[@c0sf337]

I've seen you guys have had this sponsor for a few videos now. You know that most people hate AI generated content right? Why would you promote a tool that "helps" further the brain rot on the Internet?

[@Qnexus7]

this channel is too small anyway to be too picky.

[@c0sf337]

@Qnexus7 i get that, but do you know what will never change if you don't do it from the beginning? Ethics.

[@hh7426]

6:08 Rivers of Justice isn’t a political party, it’s an electoral alliance led by the Social Democratic Party

[@robertorota3328]

You forgot the snap election in Spain...

[@bzzy968]

Wish we never left 🇬🇧

[@Wang_X250]

Based on swing, the right-wing and right-leaning won. Based on results, the left-leaning won.

[@MrScruffels]

Will you ever make a more in-depth video on Bulgarias political crisis? I feel like with proper research there’s plenty to talk about for at least 10 minutes

[@thomasandriessen1046]

11:38 It's very curtain that Vlaams Belang will not take part. It's a very right wing party and any coalition that it's a part of would completely ruin the future electability of all other parties (except maybe NVA) in that coalition. A lot of Belgians are very against VB.

[@draspian]

10:50 It was contentious at home and admittedly the government played dirty in it, but going by the rules, ECR should have gotten a point for its commissioner, given how they aren't in the EU governing coalition, and the left should have gotten a minus one because the greens got nothing despite being within the majority.

[@realhawaii5o]

I can't fathom that I identify as centre-left and so does Peter Pellegrini 😬

[@tamaashu]

If you think the far right leads Hungary, you don't know what is far right...

[@krstev29]

I was looking for this video

[@spv4207]

In Bulgaria, just recently 4 parties reached an agreement and will form a government - GERB, BSP (Bulgarian Socialist Party), ITN (There is such people) and DPS (Movement for rights and freedoms).

[@nikolay9001]

APS, not DPS, not that it matters that much...

[@mateyp3365]

I think they're called DPS-DPS now:)

[@marktheprussian]

11:40 vlaams belang will never govern federally. They are flemish nationalists who oppose the existence of belgium as a state and want complete and total sovereignty over flanders without any federal structure to interfere, because of this, literally all wallonian parties will never have a reason to govern with them as they are opposed on a fundamental level. Furthermore, a ‘cordon sanitaire’ has been placed around them since the ‘80s, where all parties in the federal and flemish parliaments have agreed to never enter a coalition with them (local elections are different because specific local parties are not bound to this agreement as they never signed it).

[@tomaspatrao297]

My guy completely forgot that Portugal exists😭😭😭

[@nalyeso5689]

In Romania, the Social Democratic Party is not really considered left-wing, due to its conservative and nationalist stance. According to historian Ioan Stanomir, there's nothing left-wing about the party.

[@vicrai578]

Me as a french seeing the thumbnail : "How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old men?" The winning party was a coalition of leftist parties. Some of them more extreme, some of them more centrist. It is not considered as an far left party, only the right wing says so to intimidate people. I forgot the source that clarifies that but you can probably find it if you look it up

[@CladdaghUNITED-IRELAND]

I still cant belive our leftist and rightist shared this elction just to stop sin fein

[@artimist0315]

Something interesting to note with France is that while Macron's party arrived second, this is mostly due to NFP candidates dropping out of the elections to prevent the RN to win. Without this, Macron would have only secured around 66 circonscriptions, almost a third of the seats they ended up winning. This anti RN alliance also benefited the NFP to a lesser extent, with only two third of their seats secured without Macron's candidates dropping out the elections. Finally the RN lost a lot of seats despite representing around a third of electors. This shows that while the far right is gaining support in France, there is still a strong majority of voters who'd take anything over the far right winning. This also shows that the center right despite making up the current government is extremely unpopular nowadays, with only about a 25% aproval rate and even less supporters.

[@braytongoodall2598]

Fun video concept

[@jahmes303]

FYI: Poland had pretty big parlament election on 15.10 that changed the ruling coalition from center-right to center-left. (It had the biggest number of voters in the history of democratic Poland post 1989)

[@Donderu]

12:38 did you mean fatigue? It’s pronounced ”fa-teeg”

[@wilmer4421]

ai script

[@eriktroske6405]

I was also like, “holy shit, it’s mispronouncing everything French” but fatigue is also a common English word, and it also screwed up Sinn Fein 🤣

[@RokasStulga]

​@@wilmer4421what do you mean by an AI script? we are talking about pronunciation...and not the script. he clearly voices in the videos with his own voice.

[@EUMadeSimple]

I don't know why I pronounced it like I did... I always thought that's how you say it haha. Next time :)

[@Mr_Tryhard]

Anyone who calls SMER a leftist party obviously knows nothing about slovak politics.

[@brunoveiga8668]

Portugal is missing

[@fabioribeiro4627]

Shocker

[@Chadrick2]

He forgot Spain as well I believe they went from a left wing pro socialist to now right wing.

[@JayTeeEN]

I think it's right to put pro business conservatives on the right even if they back multiculturalism. People try to deny it but conservatives can and have built pro-immigrantion platforms and its not a left vs right issue.

[@theonordlund1823]

When speaking in general terms in this day and age it is more of a left stance to agree with multicult, interesting part is that it was the opposite 100 years ago, with the right being for immigration due to them being able to hire people more cheap.

[@Chadrick2]

@@theonordlund1823 Yeah any right winger who is pro immigration just wants cheap labour for them and their little billionaire friends and doesn't actually care about the people.

[@jalda2791]

12:38 funny way of saying fatigue 😂

[@Wen-y2j]

Thank you. Excellent coverage.

[@dom-wohoo]

the way you categorized lithuania is not right. nauseda is definetly not a "left win"

[@Lithuanian_NAFO_lad]

Most of this is wonky, since they try to categorise it like a 2 end spectrum.

[@adamk4775]

As in a lot of other parts of the world, It looks like the center is losing the most in Europe and Europe becomes more polarised as more extreme ideologies surge in popularity.

[@Lombwolf]

If France was far left they would have established a workers republic lmfao

[@GeekVincent]

If you truly believe Vlaams Belang will take part or even has the possibility to ever take part in a national Belgian government you know far less of politics than I thought.

[@TheTrueYes]

I like the add where the AI should show pictures of the St. Martins cathedral in Bratislava and it shows a COMPLETELY OTHER cathedral. That building isn't even in Slovakia!And what even is the "š" "Bratišlava"? Just shows why you shouldn't use the product advertised for!!!

[@CheesyToby]

How was Zuzana Čaputová centrist? she is definitely far left

[@jannoottenburghs5121]

Vlaams belang won’t be part of a federal government in Belgium. That’s for sure.

[@severusrogue259]

Hey! Overall a pretty informative video. However, I'm from Belgium and I disagree with my country's assessment. In 2019 (our last national election), the far right triple its score and they would have for sure received a point for that. But in 2024, the polls got it wrong ; despite polling 1st for 5 years, Vlaams Belang got beaten by the nationalists N-VA and its leader openly said that he will never negotiate with the far right (contrary to what happened in The Netherlands). In Wallonia, Ensemble (centrist party) got a huge boost, along with MR (right wing) so I'd have given -1 point for the left (the left lost in Wallonia) & +1 for the center and center right. I wouldn't give any point for the far right since they're completely isolated and failed to win in Flanders. Politics in Belgium is a bit complicated but I wanted to give you this more nuanced opinion. In a couple of weeks, we will probably have our next government and it will be 1 left wing party, 2 center parties and 2 right wing parties.

[@woesmaro]

This rating gut just as complex as the European Union itself

[@artimist0315]

Yeah the demarcations between left and right based only on self identification are extremely inaccurate even as umbrella terms. For example Macron's party in France has seen a huge shift to the right when it comes to discourse and policies, and while they did start off as a typical center liberal economically and socially progressive party, they became more and more conservative even flirting with the far right as they stayed in power. They are currently almost indistinguishable from the PPE supported "les republicains" and even the National Front when it comes to policies. We have to understand that France currently has no major party pushing against homosexual's rights and feminism, but conservatism is currently more noticeable with anti trans, anti islam and anti immigration policies, which is now almost indistinguishable from Macron to the far right. Of course the far right is still separated by posing a pretty big threat to democracy, among other things planning to dismantle our constitutional council, which in practice means that unconstitutional laws could pass, and threatening press independence and freedom by selling out our public press and only keeping a channel to share the regim's view, but even then Macron has lately shown signs of not caring that much about our constitution and our democracy lately, even trying to appeal to the far right to keep the barnier government rather than keeping the alliance with the NFP that brought them so many votes. Macron's whole political discourse has historically been anti-far right, so it's very unlikely that he will soon partner with them, but ideologically he's getting closer and far gone are the days where Macron was considered center leaning, at least in France

[@sebbvell3426]

If you're a centrist, you're a sucker.

[@9delta988]

Please don't use the American definition of liberalism.

[@victimized1]

I don't think it's the right approach to use parties / presidents declared political alignment. Instead it would've been better to make a list of policies and rank every party / president stance on those policies. Then explain which policies fall under far right, far left, centrist and other ideologies, according to facts (and not opinions). And only then label those parties as left/right/centrist/far, according to their real stance on all policies. Parties can claim to be anything but it doesn't mean they are what they claim to be. If you stick to just labels, DPRK (Northern Korea) is a democratic state, which it isn't. Slovakia's SMER is also not a left party. Furthermore I don't think this binary distinction is accurate nowadays.

[@vascobranco5296]

Everyone always forgets Portugal 🥲

[@acelrobert]

Romania being left-leaning it's just weird when the parliament went so smoothly for the right (+9% for AUR + 2 new parties) + same with the president election that everyone know Calin Georgescu would have won and that's why they canceled (They said everything it's fine the first round, as soon as the people from oversea started voting they were like "hmm, they are not voting for the "PRO-EU" and Woke agenda"). So It's simply incorrect to put Romania as left-leaning at the moment, especially with the protests that were/are going on because of the abuse of power and illegal stay of the current wannabe-President. What they failed to mention is the Constitutional Court is made by PSD/PNL people.

[@crc-d7s]

Romania is still left-leaning, only 35% of the parliament is far-right. there were protests of like 20k people in Bucharest, not so many. In the city of Zalau at the protest participated 7 people and a dog. Most of the people in the country are happy that the elections were annuled, a disaster was avoided.

[@acelrobert]

​@@crc-d7s You are just incorrect, most people are not happy with the annulation of the second round of elections, how can you say something so undocumented. Just looking at numbers we know Calin Georgescu would've won in 2nd tour even after the leftist propaganda that he will leave NATO & EU and that he is supporter of Antonescu regime and a commie and a populist (can't be all 3) "there were protests of like 20k people in Bucharest, not so many"" Let's say they were only 20k in Bucharest, we don't know the exact numbers, could have been higher, maybe lower. Still more people than Elena Lasconi's "PRO-EU" rally. "Most of the people in the country are happy that the elections were annuled" You're telling me more than 2 millions ( Calin Georgescu supporters) + most likely the others populist candidates supporters that will be 4 maybe 5 million people are not the majority?

[@acelrobert]

@@crc-d7s You are so wrong I can't believe what I just read. First "Most of the people in the country are happy that the elections were annuled, a disaster was avoided." you are completly wrong. Every poll that was made was showing Calin Georgescu would've have won, statistically speaking it can't be true what you are saying. The only reason they canceled the election it was because they knew who would win and it wasn't their prefered candidates, Elena Lasconi, if it was her winning noone would give 2 cents about this guy and his tik-tok campaign. How can you say that when more than half of the voters were not happy with the election being cancelled. Second " there were protests of like 20k people in Bucharest, not so many." Let's say they were only 20k, we don't know the numbers exactly, AUR says were more than 100k, the left media says way less and the authorities are somewhat around tens of thousands. Why weren't this many people for the "PRO-EU", "PRO-WOKE" rally that Elena Lasconi organized after all the propaganda against Calin Georgescu? You are just delusional.

[@mugurelpena5723]

​@@crc-d7s Bă, nu mai vorbi, ca iese cu Maro (or in English if you don't understand; Stop talking, you're spouting bullshit)

[@Outofcontexthandle]

You forgot the Netherlands

[@Chadrick2]

@@batteriebrettchen6761 Still relevant

[@erik7999]

it's increasingly difficult to rely on left/right divide when it comes to politics. In case of Lithuania for example, where a left-leaning party has won in the parliamentary elections, our governemnt will likely remain relatively conservative compared to what "left-leaning" looks like in say Western Europe and that's due to the fact that our society itself is more conservative in comparison. The "conservative left" term that's been popping up more these days does a decent job painting a clearer picture of what's going on. 😅

[@theophilepetit6223]

Great video ! The icon is a little misleading though : if it's true that France's NFP gathers parties from the far-left to the center-left, the majority of the alliance is more towards the left than the far-left.

[@nikolay4101-s7r]

I understand that things develop quickly and it's difficult to keep track of everything but Bulgaria will actually have an elected government tomorrow and an 8th election seems incredibly unlikely. Coalition talks were finalized by last week, the (minority) government parties affirmed their support by Sunday and yesterday the additional confidence & supply was secured from APS, which won't be in government. It will be voted on tomorrow

[@helen_awkrawd]

APS? Ще имаме правителство най-накрая? 😮

[@nikolay9001]

@@helen_awkrawd APS - на Доган новата партия. Ще направят коалиция, ще влезем в еврозоната, ще откраднат всички милиарди, които сега осигуряват валутния борд (понеже той ще падне с влизането в еврозоната) и после ще се разпадне седянката (догодина)...

[@bigplaner6525]

Without Portugal's Aliança Democratica's ousting of the Socialist Party this ranking is all wrong! The right leaning camp would have 7 points and left leaing would have 6!!!

[@josip2126]

there were croatian presidental elections like 2 days before you published this video, center left won them

[@methatis3013]

Ma bolje da niko ne vidi kako se sramotimo "Well done HDZ", došlo mi da se rasplačem lol

[@Johan.V10]

France with seats went to the left. But votes way to the right more than 37%

[@Labben91]

Hot take: You can't to far right politically.

[@08vhhghhjio87]

Lol wtf, Croatian HDZ is centre right, not far right, how can a party who legalized gay adoptions 5 yrs ago be far right 😂 Not even DP is far right, the only actual far right Croatia has is HSP, who got like 0.5%. HDZ is EPP and DP is ECR, thats like calling German CDU or Greek Nea Demokratia as far right

[@VillaDish]

Nobody called HDZ far rigrht mate?

[@marin8141]

The f*ck are you on about? DP is far right Just because they aren't Afd level far right that doesn't make them any less so.

[@WolfyOfHonor]

Lithuania got a neo-fascists and socialdemocracts in the same coalition. So not that accurate.

[@Diamond-vy1lx]

Based?!

[@Pisimist]

@@Diamond-vy1lx He is referring to this newly formed party Dawn of Nemunas. Their leader successfully played the antisemitic card by saying quite stupid things about jews, constitutional court had pledged him guilty and he left the previous parliament just before they kicked him out. In short- Lithuania has 2 major parties (social democrats and conservatives) and every election there is a wild card aka 3 party which collets the votes of people who hate everyone. This year this party is called Dawn of Nemunas. Their leader is a populist and did say antisemitic things, but the term neo-fascist is a very populist statement as well.

[@Diamond-vy1lx]

@@Pisimist Thanks a lot for the context!

[@valentinbavaris4371]

12:53 nice

[@KaIliev19]

Bulgaria Update: We have managed to form a coalition between GERB, ITN and BSP and support from DPS-DPS, so yea

[@stanisawfelczynski6471]

remove AI.

[@fellerfellas]

yet another great video, hurrah

[@EUMadeSimple]

Glad you enjoyed!

[@3chmidt]

Too bad politics are damn subjective, while some for some reason see the German CDU as conservative, others see them as far left (tho I would say they're just spineless). For example what is the Polish Pis party? I heard some say they're socialist, other that they are right wing. For all I know, parties that are called "conservative" lean more to the left nowadays. It also depends on the society, a party that would be right wing in Europe, would be seen as left wing in Japan or Israel. Like, von der Leyen is FAR from the right, having destroyed the German army during her time as the minister. The coming month with the election in Germany gonna be interesting. Let us see as the CDU forms a coalition with far left parties

[@Diamond-vy1lx]

It's just the overtone window is too far to the left. And any change is by default then far right. In my opinion ECR should be center right

[@sebbvell3426]

Belgium has been in a political deadlock since June and nobody talks about it!?

[@zamf]

One small update about Bulgaria's elections. It may be possible for a government to be formed between center-right GERB-SDS party, far-left BSP party, center-right ITN party and center-left DPS-DPS party. However, most people think it's a loss for Bulgaria as a whole since all of these parties are accused of participating in corruption and there many corruption scandals surrounding them. Overall, if this coalition succeeds and a functioning government is formed this will be a win for the status-quo parties and a loss for the so-called protest-parties that held huge protests in 2020 against the status-quo parties (with the exception of ITN, who were part of the protests). That being said, I don't think your categorization on the left-right spectrum reflects accurately the parties' actual affiliations. It is more accurate to use a political compass, which shows both the economic left-right spectrum as well as the social conservative-progressive spectrum. This would explain how 2 center-right parties, 1 far-left and 1 center-left party can try and form a coalition in Bulgaria. That's because 3 of these 4 parties are conservative and the last one claims to be liberal but hasn't shown much devotion in that direction. So it's basically a win for the conservatives in Bulgaria (one of which is the far-left Socialists BSP party).

[@vasilisthc4609]

1) Fičo is anti-immigration and against the war in Ukraine, and definitely not a leftie 2) The western-backed coup in Romania doesn't change the fact that Georgescu won. 3) Le Pen won the popular vote in both rounds

[@NagyTamas15]

Wass good lads

[@punishedpinecone4772]

Georgescu isn't pro-Russia, he just refused to play the stupid games of their media. They always try to distract candidates from talking about their policies with the Russia hysteria.