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    #26
    Swedish Democrats record 17.7% tonight - still too high, of course, but below poll expectations, and both the Social Democrats and Moderates finish comfortably ahead.

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      #27
      They did no better in Malmo than the national average.

      But yeah the vote is horribly high, if not what it might have been.

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        #28
        Malmö is a lefty town.

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          #29
          ...but rural Skċne isn't. SD are the largest party in 19 out of 33 local constituencies. Horrifying.

          https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a...kanes-kommuner

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            #30
            The Swiss canton of St. Gallen votes by 2:1 to ban public display of the burka - the garment may well be a vile instrument of patriarchal misogyny, but some women might be wearing it of their own free will.

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              #31
              The similar in canton Ticino had an interesting effect, a tiny amount of Burqua wearing women have been caught out but a much greater number of football/hockey ultras with face covering garments have been arrested because if it...

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                #32
                Someone needs to examine the monks in that abbey in the centre of town

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                  #33
                  Swedish exit poll analysis suggests that Sweden Democrats were the largest party nationally amongst men.

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                    #34
                    Originally posted by anton pulisov View Post
                    Swedish exit poll analysis suggests that Sweden Democrats were the largest party nationally amongst men.
                    Women also more sensible in Bavaria:

                    https://mobile.twitter.com/EuropeEle...12685861302272

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                      #35
                      One would have thought that Franco had permanently inoculated Spain against the far-right, but it seems Vox are poised to enter the Spanish parliament - predictably, their support comes largely from PP and Ciudadanos voters.

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                        #36
                        The PP had enough of a lunatic fringe to accommodate the far right pretty well too. Like Aznar’s wife in the Madrid govt.

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                          #37


                          https://www.politico.eu/article/pier...-is-grotesque/

                          Italian MEP Angelo Ciocca, from the far-right League party, stormed to the front of the room at the end of Tuesday’s press conference, snatched the commissioner’s papers, took off his shoe and pounded them with it.

                          An MEP who banged his “Made in Italy” shoe on top of a stack of papers in the European Parliament isn’t funny because the episode could be the beginning of the road to fascism, European Commissioner Pierre Moscovici warned Wednesday. Referring to an episode that occurred at a press conference during which the Commission announced its unprecedented decision on Tuesday to issue a “negative opinion” on Rome’s budgetary plans, Moscovici urged Europeans to “stay alert” because “democracy is a fragile treasure.”
                          Very fragile indeed.

                          https://twitter.com/AngeloCiocca/status/1054749403150475265

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                            #38
                            Originally posted by Diable Rouge View Post
                            One would have thought that Franco had permanently inoculated Spain against the far-right, but it seems Vox are poised to enter the Spanish parliament - predictably, their support comes largely from PP and Ciudadanos voters.
                            Why would you think that?

                            There's been a long tradition of overt sympathy for Fascism in post-Franco Spain. There are still symbols of Falangism everywhere you go. Both of the largest Madrileño football teams have visible neo-Nazi ultras groups and the Falangists were very visible during the constitutional crisis of 2017. There are squatted neo-nazi "social centres" in Madrid and Zaragoza which provide a nexus for far-right organising and violent, often fatal attacks on leftists, people of colour and lgbt people.

                            That article says that 40% of people believe PP represent the "extreme right" and 23% believe Ciudadanos do - so it's not like the Franco sympathisers haven't had electoral representation since 1977 when the Falangists last won a seat.
                            Last edited by Bizarre Löw Triangle; 05-11-2018, 15:34.

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                              #39
                              Gracias

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                                #40
                                https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1059766352758616064?s=21

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                                  #41
                                  Originally posted by Bizarre Löw Triangle View Post
                                  Why would you think that?

                                  There's been a long tradition of overt sympathy for Fascism in post-Franco Spain. There are still symbols of Falangism everywhere you go. Both of the largest Madrileño football teams have visible neo-Nazi ultras groups and the Falangists were very visible during the constitutional crisis of 2017. There are squatted neo-nazi "social centres" in Madrid and Zaragoza which provide a nexus for far-right organising and violent, often fatal attacks on leftists, people of colour and lgbt people.

                                  That article says that 40% of people believe PP represent the "extreme right" and 23% believe Ciudadanos do - so it's not like the Franco sympathisers haven't had electoral representation since 1977 when the Falangists last won a seat.
                                  Latest polling on Vox shows a relatively even split in their support coming from PP and Ciudadanos:

                                  http://twitter.com/GonzaloAdan/status/1066809307528921088

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                                    #42
                                    Now tipped to win six seats in Andalusia:

                                    http://twitter.com/electo_mania/status/1068232882110562307

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                                      #43
                                      Originally posted by Diable Rouge View Post
                                      Swedish Democrats record 17.7% tonight - still too high, of course, but below poll expectations, and both the Social Democrats and Moderates finish comfortably ahead.
                                      By "democrats" would I be correct in assuming they aren't?

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                                        #44
                                        Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Italy, Poland, and Slovakia pledge not to sign the UN Global Compact on Migration.

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                                          #45
                                          Cunts.

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                                            #46
                                            Unlike the Principled Irish Position of not officially being against such measures but never ratifying them.

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                                              #47
                                              Andalusian result:

                                              PSOE 33
                                              PP 26
                                              Ciudadanos 21
                                              Podemos 17
                                              Vox 12

                                              PP and C's have both backed a coalition including Vox.

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                                                #48
                                                Fash Cunts showing their colours so. C cunts are the biggest cunts maybes cos they pretend to Liberal Reasonableness.

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                                                  #49
                                                  Quite shocking.

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                                                    #50
                                                    In fact, profoundly depressing.

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