On Europe’s Far Right And Far Left, Loud Cheers For Greek Defiance

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By Griff Witte July 6 at 12:47 PM

ATHENS — When voters in Greece did the previously unthinkable and defied Europe’s political titans by spurning their bailout proposal, some of the loudest rejoicing came from well beyond the country’s borders.

All across the continent — from north to south, from the far right to the far left — parties that have rocketed to prominence with populist rhetoric celebrated what they saw as perhaps the most direct strike yet at the heart of the European order.

“Today in Greece democracy won,” Pablo Iglesias, leader of the radical leftist Spanish party Podemos, cheered on Twitter.

The result was a victory against “the oligarchy of the European Union,” declared Marine Le Pen, leader of the far-right French party National Front.

The enthusiastic response from such unlikely bedfellows reflects the strange new politics of Europe, which have pitted mainstream parties against formerly fringe movements that, for different reasons, are determined to tear down the systems and ideologies that have governed the continent for decades.

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1. lol - Washington Post doing propaganda for Wall Street, gee,

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how surprising.

As a staunch liberal, I think France's National Front is a party for dbags, but no longer are they "far right" given they received 1/4 of the popular vote for the 2014 European Parliament elections, coming in first and occupying 1/3 of France's seats to the body.

Naturally, a liberal victory for a populist measure in Greece is being characterized as encouraging to 'radicals on both sides', lol.