New Right

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The New Right or New Right Movement(Sometimes mistakenly called the Alt-Right) is a Right Wing Nationalist, Populist and Nativist decentralized movement that has slowly gained traction since the 1990s, and has particularly blown up from 2015 onwards. Common policy characteristics vary from group to group, but often include Anti-Communism, Anti-Immigration, Populism, Nationalism, Euroscepticism,Pro-borders, opposition to Globalism and Multiculturalism.


History from 2015 onwards

The New Right began to gain serious traction with the beginning of the European migrant crisis in 2015.

Poland

The first major swing to the New right was the victory of the Polish Law and Justice Party (PiS) in both the 2015 Polish parliamentary election and the 2015 Polish presidential election. which allowed PiS to form a single-party majority government, the first in modern Polish history. The New PiS government immediately implemented a anti-immigration border policy.


Hungary

The two major New Right parties are Fidesz, lead by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, and Jobbik, Jobbik is often considered the more extreme of the two. Fidesz is the largest party in the Hungarian parliament while Jobbik is the second largest.


United Kingdom

The main New Right political party in the UK is UKIP, or the UK Independence Party. UKIP originally focused on Euroscepticism and advocates for the UK to leave the European Union, eventually thanks to the work of UKIP in June 2016 the UK voted to leave the EU in the Brexit referendum. From 2016-2018 UKIP entered into a state of decline with the resignation of UKIP leader Nigel Farage. However from 2018 onwards under the leadership of Gerard Batten, the party has seen some growth, mostly thanks to embracing more right wing individuals such as Paul Joseph Watson and Tommy Robinson.


Germany

The main New Right party is Alternative for Germany, or Afd. founded in 2013 it first gained notability when it came 3rd in the 2017 German federal election.


Italy

The main Italian new right party is The Northern League, (Italian:Lega Nord) or simply League or Lega. Lega is lead by Italian Deputy Prime Minster Matteo Salvini. They are currently a junior partner in a coalition government with centrist party Five Star Movement after winning 17.4% of the vote in the 2018 Italian general election. However, as of the 23rd of April 2019, Lega has been polling around 30% for both the 2023 General election and the 2019 European Parliament election, while Five Star Movement has been consistently polling in the low 20s since mid 2018, as a result if election were held today Lega would be the largest party.

Another new right party in Italy is Brothers of Italy, a more right leaning party with strong Nationalistic and Eurosceptic views.


Australia

From 2013-2015 Prime Minister and Leader of the Australian Liberal Party, Tony Abbot, is often considered to be a member of the New right(albeit in hindsight) and Populist Right. He was removed from power during the September 2015 Liberal Party of Australia leadership spill, which resulted in the more centrist Malcolm Turnbull becoming Prime Minister.

More recently, the growing reemergence of Pauline Hanson's One Nation as a viable political party since the 2016 Australian federal election has potential to cause a New Right movement to gain traction in Australia.

Fraser Anning's Conservative National Party, founded in April 2019, is sometimes called New Right, but a more accurate description would be Alt-Right or Far-Right.