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Bulgaria, Turkey, Ukraine and Hungary show the strongest demand for discriminatory, anti-establishment and authoritarian ideologies, according to a survey.
While far-right movements and ideas are becoming more popular in Eastern European countries, its threat is decreasing in western Europe, shows the Political Capital Institute's Demand for Right-Wing Extremism Index (Derex).
The index measures and compares people's predisposition to far right-wing politics in 32 countries using data from the European Social Survey.
This is partly because in western Europe, the extreme-right's main appeal lies in its anti-immigration policies, a subject that rarely leads people to reject the political establishment as a whole.
In eastern Europe, prejudice and anti-Gypsy attitudes are closely linked to opposition to the political system, distrust and general malaise, posing a major threat to stability.
The survey cites Bulgaria as a good example of a country where a prejudicial, nationalist and anti-establishment public can push political leaders toward greater radicalism.
“Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s government frequently steps outside democratic boundaries to try to settle scores with opponents. The government’s law-and-order rhetoric, if put into practice, would make Bulgaria look more like a police state than a democracy. However, it meets with widespread public approval,” according to the research.
It points out that potential extreme right-wing supporters are most numerous in countries that have recently gone through tumultuous periods, such as Ukraine, Hungary and Bulgaria.
Right-wing extremism poses a threat not only to the majority, but to minorities as well, which after experiencing discrimination at the hands of radicals usually become radicalized themselves, the research says.
“For example, 20% of Bulgarians belong to the country’s Islamic minority, and roughly 16 percent of these are potential extremists,” according to Derex. “This means 4% of Bulgarians are potential Muslim extremists.”
According to the index Bulgaria’s ethnic Turkish minority is at risk of radicalization, not just the Slavic majority that may harbor anti-Turkish or anti-Gypsy sentiments.
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