Working-class voters ‘driven into arms of the right’
IRELAND’S communists warned yesterday that the left’s “abdication” of opposition to the EU was driving working-class voters into the arms of the right.
The warning came in the wake of the narrow defeat of Austrian far-right Freedom Party presidential candidate Norbert Hofer.
The French National Front and the Dutch Party for Freedom are set to make serious challenges for power in next year’s elections.
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