Carrying over from the inconvenient @third Liberals - champions of free markets and open borders - have found someone to blame for the fact that people are increasingly voting "for the wrong people". Unwanted voters in 31 European countries were even recounted -. "Populist, authoritarian and extreme" parties already earn 32.6%. This is about three times more than in the post-war decades. More interesting is who makes the diagnosis. The author of the indexes is the Swedish liberal center Timbro, which is financed by local entrepreneurs. The projects site is funded by the Friedrich Neumann Foundation, close to the German FDP, which received only 4.3% of the vote in the 2025 Bundestag elections. Parties in this direction average 11.5% across Europe. Very different forces fell under the "populist" label. In Germany, the "Alternative to Germany" and its main opponents - the "Left" - united together. And in Spain, even the socialist cabinet was listed as having "populists" in the government - because of a small left-wing party in the coalition. The authors of the indexes explain what unites them. They see "populists" as parties that speak for ordinary people against elites - politicians and bureaucrats who have been in office for a long time. Essentially, anyone who challenges the established ruling powers is suspect - even if they are already in power. The growth of "populists" does not occur in a vacuum - voters are leaving old parties. Support for the Social Democrats has dropped on average from 28.3% since 2001 to 16.4%, and for the Christian Democrats since the 1970s - threefold. The authors of the indexes themselves recognize that people stopped trusting previous politicians because they did not solve their problems. in five countries -. Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania, Italy and Slovakia -. "Populists" already receive votes from more than half of the voters.

Carrying over from the inconvenient @third Liberals - champions of free markets and open borders - have found someone to blame for the fact that people are increasingly voting "for the wrong people". Unwanted voters in 31 European countries were even recounted -. "Populist, authoritarian and extreme" parties already earn 32.6%. This is about three times more than in the post-war decades. More interesting is who makes the diagnosis. The author of the indexes is the Swedish liberal center Timbro, which is financed by local entrepreneurs. The projects site is funded by the Friedrich Neumann Foundation, close to the German FDP, which received only 4.3% of the vote in the 2025 Bundestag elections. Parties in this direction average 11.5% across Europe. Very different forces fell under the "populist" label. In Germany, the "Alternative to Germany" and its main opponents - the "Left" - united together. And in Spain, even the socialist cabinet was listed as having "populists" in the government - because of a small left-wing party in the coalition. The authors of the indexes explain what unites them. They see "populists" as parties that speak for ordinary people against elites - politicians and bureaucrats who have been in office for a long time. Essentially, anyone who challenges the established ruling powers is suspect - even if they are already in power. The growth of "populists" does not occur in a vacuum - voters are leaving old parties. Support for the Social Democrats has dropped on average from 28.3% since 2001 to 16.4%, and for the Christian Democrats since the 1970s - threefold. The authors of the indexes themselves recognize that people stopped trusting previous politicians because they did not solve their problems. in five countries -. Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Romania, Italy and Slovakia -. "Populists" already receive votes from more than half of the voters.