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It’s not just boomers, young people are voting far right too (www.politico.eu)
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Ahead of the European election, striking data shows where Gen Z and millennials’ allegiances lie.

Far-right parties are surging across Europe — and young voters are buying in. 

Many parties with anti-immigrant agendas are even seeing support from first-time young voters in the upcoming June 6-9 European Parliament election.

In Belgium, France, Portugal, Germany and Finland, younger voters are backing anti-immigration and anti-establishment parties in numbers equal to and even exceeding older voters, analyses of recent elections and research of young people’s political preferences suggest.

In the Netherlands, Geert Wilders’ anti-immigration far-right Freedom Party won the 2023 election on a campaign that tied affordable housing to restrictions on immigration — a focus that struck a chord with young voters. In Portugal, too, the far-right party Chega, which means “enough” in Portuguese, drew on young people’s frustration with the housing crisis, among other quality-of-life concerns. 

The analysis also points to a split: While young women often reported support for the Greens and other left-leaning parties, anti-migration parties did particularly well among young men. (Though there are some exceptions. See France, below, for example.)

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[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

hat even a natural population growth without immigration can cause a housing crisis

Eh it's more complicated than that because populations in Europe aren't growing. It's about urbanisation there's plenty of houses available in villages you don't want to live in, and I don't mean that as an insult to the villages they're more often than not perfectly quaint. Another factor is shifting standards, people by and large have much more space per person than in the past.

[-] pepperonisalami@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 months ago

Yes true, my perception is biased to a local housing problem where younger people can't afford apartments while old rich people own so many.

Regardless, it's still sad that immigrants are being blamed. Even urbanisation means that they're citizens of that country, and they caused the problem themselves.

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