Far-right parties in Spain, France and Belgium are fielding ultra-young candidates, hope the demographic will respond with votes.
, the AfD’s gains were notable while support from the youngest voters for the Green Party barely changed. France’s vote showed similar trends.
Louis Beernaert, 27, has been coming to Vlaams Belang meetings with his father and sister since he was a child. Now his sister’s husband and their toddler have joined also. They were all in favor of the party’s new faces, which include its 32-year-old president, Tom Van Grieken. Even though migration to Europe has slowed to a trickle, the continent is still grappling with the after-effects of the hundreds of thousands who arrived in the past few years alone. Belgium’s foreign-born population went from just under 12% to nearly 17% between 2006 and 2017, not including people who slipped in illegally. In France, asylum requests last year topped out at 123,625 — an increase of 23% from 2017, when they had already risen 17%.
That month, young far-right leaders from all those parties and more gathered in Rome, where a 23-year-old raised by a single mother in a suburban Paris housing project was one of the stars. Jordan Bardella’s brief speech to a young audience hit many of the same notes as Jean-Marie Le Pen’s from decades ago.
“The generation that is committed to nationalist political movements today is the generation that tomorrow will be called upon to lead Europe,” Bardella told the AP. In Spain, Vox’s gains have come at the expense of traditional conservatives, who were slow to counter the upstart far-right party’s rise among the young. Its events include popular “Pints for Spain” evenings at bars, nightclubs and cafes, where no one over 25 is allowed in.
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