Haben die Linke und die extreme Rechte gemeinsam für den Sturz einer Regierung gestimmt?
Von vladgrinch
Haben die Linke und die extreme Rechte gemeinsam für den Sturz einer Regierung gestimmt?
Von vladgrinch
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Welcome back ernst Thaalman and mr adolf
I wonder how close is Germany to this
The Social Democrats of Romania voted today on the same side as the far-right AUR in a no-confidence vote, bringing down the pro-EU government. The leader of S&D defended romanian PSD despite causing a deep political crisis that may come with huge costs for the population (EU funds freeze, financial rating downgraded to junk, failure to attract SAFE and the Recovery and Resilience funds, huge inflation and deficit, the collapse of the romanian currency, etc). The PSD-AUR alliance had/has no real plans for what happens next. No clear name for a new prime-minister. All they wanted was to remove the current reformist prime-minister that closed the taps through which money were drained by PSD politicians for the past decades and stop any real reform.
This is not a unique case in Europe.
In recent years, similar votes have taken place in France, Austria Sweden and Portugal, where left-wing parties and the far right backed the same motions to bring down governments.
And in how many of these cases did the far left end up in a better position afterwards? My money’s on “none”.
it’s always far right and never far left
In Europe though their „right“ would be what Republicans in the US call „the far left“ and their far right in Europe would be more like moderate Republicans in the US
Also Montenegro 2020.
The left in France didn’t „vote together“ with the far right, Macron called an election where his coalition was bound to lose leading to a far right majority, then the left parties united and saved that election and gained a majority in government, Macron then, like a weasel, put up a conservative prime minister in power who tried to force Macron’s unacceptable, austerity filled, corporation loving budget that was ridiculously unpopular through and the only way to stop it was a vote of no confidence which then „toppled“ the government. Dishonest map.
In Austria, this was a very special situation. The far right was in a coalition government with the conservatives. The government collapsed because a video surfaced in which the leader of the far right was secretly filmed promising government contracts to a woman he believed to be a Russian oligarch ([Ibiza affair](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibiza_affair)). Subsequently, the Federal President (from the Green Party) assembled a provisional government consisting of conservative politicians. This caused a lot of criticism because many people didn’t trust the conservatives either. There was nothing specifically wrong with the new government members, but tensions were running high. The Social Democrats therefore submitted a motion of no confidence in parliament. The far right (FPÖ) voted in favor because they felt betrayed by the conservatives (who had previously been practically ousted from the government).
The Social Democrats and the FPÖ therefore voted against the minority government of the conservatives for different reasons. The Federal President then appointed another provisional government. It consisted largely of civil servants and was not affiliated with any political party. This interim government was very popular. Then, a little later, new elections were held, resulting in a conservative-green government.
All this map actually tells us is ‚unpopular governments are unpopular – it’s comparing a bunch of highly contextual decisions made in totally different political circumstances as though they’re like-for-like.
As a Swede, wasn’t it more like the right and far left in 2021? It was three right-wing parties plus the Left Party (the furthest left major Swedish party). Of those right-wing parties Sweden Democrats may be counted as far-right, but the Moderates and Christian Democrats are more the center-right in Swedish Overton Window.
sadly, this kinda exclusion has a long history in many places
I wander something.. why there are many „Far Right“, but none“Far Left“.. hmm
Governments in the 21st century are so unaware of the common man and it’s condition. We see politicians fighting, not debating, while the common man suffers and regardless of who is in charge this keeps happening
I feel like the left and the right collaborating to topple their governments will be a trend in the near future
tl;dr: shit so bad that the left and right are forced to work together
Far left exists too, you know?
Neoliberalism is unpopular
Centrism is in decline
Montenegro recently?
Serbia in 2000?
PSD in Romania is anything but left wing.
Not „far left“ and „far right“, not „left“ and „right“, but „left“ and „far right“.
Maybe the OOP has some ulterior motives
In 2025 the portuguese assembly booted out the government
In 2025 the Portuguese people voted the exact same government back in (Same party, same coalition, same leadership under the prime minster who was the face and actual cause of the whole government-destroying legal controversy)
Slovakia (2022): vote of no confidence by centre-right (SaS) supported by left (SMER/HLAS) and far right (LSNS, Republika). Caused by personal animosity between then-leader of SaS (Sulik) and the rest of then-current government (OLANO – Matovic, Heger).
After early elections (2023) a government fromed of SMER, HLAS (formerly part of SMER) and SNS. Again…
Slovakia should have been the reddest of them all.
the map feels like it’s missing a lot of context for these events
A lot of supposed „left“ parties in Europe are actually just pro-Russian (pro-Gazprom?) and not really leftist in any meaningful way. So they have common cause with the far right on some issues. The best shibboleth is decarbonisation. Do they care about the climate or do they want to suck on Gazprom’s teet? BSW in Germany is the best example
that’s one impressive river, crossing continents like it’s no big deal
„Left“
Shouldn’t we say Hungary 2026 aswell? Since they couldn’t have won without rightwing voters switching to their side aswell
*vote not voted
Breaking news, no one likes neoliberals, what a shocker
if you think the social democrats in romania is left welll…only by name i guess
looks like europe is playing political bingo
There’s nothing leftist about PSD in Romania. Conservative, extractive, populist party. Socialist in the name only, same as National Socialists in Germany.
What a stupid map. Half of these elections the party in power didn’t even lose… so how exactly did they topple a government? lol
politics really knows how to make strange bedfellows
It’s almost like they’ve both be psyoped by the same bad actors…
Yeah but the Romanian party considered as left is actually a big tent party that in recent years has been leaning right wing or even far right at times.
There are no far left and far right in Europe anymore. They are things from the past.
Yeahh.. the left in Romania doesn’t really exist
Our socialist party is more to the right