In the first round of French presidential elections, the extreme right and left received more than 30% of the vote, with Martine Le Pen’s anti-EU National Front threatening to supplant the center-right Union for a Popular Movement as the country’s new mainstream rightist party. In Greece, the party system’s dangerous fragmentation into a range of smaller groups, combined with the robust emergence of a new anti-austerity left, Alexis Tsipras’s Syriza, and a neo-Nazi right, has plunged governance into to a state of total paralysis.
我们看到，席卷欧洲的最新潮流是选民开始反对主流政治。在法国大选的首轮投票中，极右翼和极左翼获得了超过30%的选票，勒庞的反欧盟国民阵线（National Front）差点挤掉中右翼的人民运动联盟（Union for a Popular Movement）成为法国新的主流右翼党派。在希腊，政党体系出现了危险的分裂，形成了一系列小团体，加之新反紧缩左翼——奇普拉斯（Tsipras）的激进左翼联盟（Syriza）和新纳粹右翼的稳步崛起，让国家治理完全陷入了瘫痪状态。