Party Scoopers

Keeping out the riff raff:

The elections demonstrated the voters’ persistent support for political movements embracing right-wing populism on issues related to immigration, crime and social issues while abandoning milquetoast traditional center-right parties for failing to bring meaningful change. Yet, the insurgent populists came up short of converting the widespread support at the voting booth to electoral gains due to tactical voting agreements and support split among right-leaning voters. "In both cases, the left-wing parties were able to maximize their votes, and the right-wing parties were not able to maximize their votes," Mendoza said. "It's been said that Labour's support is a mile wide and an inch deep, but that's what you need to win British elections with large numbers of support without being focused in certain areas," Mendoza added about Labour’s lower overall popular support. "The reality in France was that various left-wing parties and Macron got together and basically shut the right out, but the right did not do a similar thing. The Republicans stayed in the race and did not give way to the National Rally or vice versa."

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