The role of right wing populism in European states "Populism in Italy as a case study" (original) (raw)

Political attention to populism has rocked in recent years. But we still haven’t a common definition for this phenomenon and scholars conflicting on categorization boundaries between its different manifestations. Nevertheless, these populist parties share a number of common characteristics. The first one is fighting against the prevailing political systems and division of society into two groups ‘the pure people’ vs. ‘the corrupt political elite’. Second, charismatic leaders call for radical and extremist ideas. as well as addressing issues that occupy public opinions like economic stagnation, Islamophobia, austerity, and a migration crisis. Applying to the European Union case, it faces a critical time after the 2014 European parliamentary elections, where eurosceptic and populist parties have achieved unprecedented success by winning 214 out of the 751 seats, with %28 according to estimated results issued by the European Parliament. In the light of these results, we can refer to a huge crisis in front of classical political parties. The voters want to send a message to these mainstream elites, whereas the majority still in the hand of the regular party, but maybe withdraws from their hands in the next elections. Which we see in the European realty from a fierce competition in France elections between Marie le pen and macron, the role of UKIP party in united kingdom and its success to promote Brexit campaign. Finally the big shock in Italy. In the light of these indicators will turn to populist experience in Italy, Following the general elections of 2018, for the first time ever one of the major countries of the European Union is now under the rule of Populist Party. Where the anti-establishment Five Star Movement won %32 and the Lega party won %17.4 of the total votes. Nevertheless , no party can achieve the majority requires to form the government alone and Italy had a hung parliament, which resulted in a a joint alliance that did not last long time .through this paper will discuss and understand main reasons that led to dominant of populist parties and the possible scenarios for the future of politics in Italy.

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