Grand Study: Support for populism in Europe has declined dramatically

The project in question, which included 26 thousand people in 25 countries, pointed to a decline in populist tendencies in all of the 8 countries where the measure was made last year.

Polythologists expressed surprise at the rate of this decline, but said that since the reasons most likely related to the pandemic of the Coronavirus, support for populist beliefs would increase once again as the focus of the crisis becomes more economical, writes The Guardian, Periscopi.

“You can think of the virus as a volcano,” said Matthijs Roodwinin, politicalologist at Amsterdam University and populism expert. “E has hit vocal population, but will leave fertile soil for them in the future. ”

Populism, which fragments politics as a battle between ordinary people and corrupt elites, has risen sharply as a political force, with support for popular parties in national elections keeping Europe at between 7 and 25 percent in the last 20 years.

The populist leaders left but mostly extreme right like Matteo Salvin, Marine Le Pen and Victor Orban have grown and populist parties have joined the government in dozens of European states.

The study, conducted during July and the condition, found that in Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain and Sweden fewer people believed in the statement that the “power of little particular interests prevented the country from making progress. ”

In some countries the decline was drastic - from 33% once believing in populist beliefs, only 11 percent now believed in it. The decline was also high in Great Britain (9%), Germany (9%), France (.8%), Italy (6%) and Poland (4%). /Periscope