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Since 2000, left-wing parties have ruled for the past X years in: Ireland: 0 years The Netherlands: 2 years (Kok - 2000-2002) Belgium: 3 years (Di Rupo, 2011
by crote 4y ago
Since 2000, left-wing parties have ruled for the past X years in:
Ireland: 0 years
The Netherlands: 2 years (Kok - 2000-2002)
Belgium: 3 years (Di Rupo, 2011-2014)
France: 5 years (Hollande - 2012-2017)
Germany: 6 years (Schröder - 2000-2005, Scholz - 2021-now)
United Kingdom: 10 years (Blair - 2000-2007, Brown - 2007-2010)
Austria: 18 years (Fischer, 2004-2016, Buren - 2016-2017, Van der Bellen - 2017-now)
So yeah, with the exception of Austria and arguably perhaps the UK, western Europe is pretty right-wing. In general, Western Europe has been very heavily on the neoliberal train since the 90s, including a significant amount of privatization. The current state of healthcare is a direct result of this.
- deepthunder 4y agoAgreed. One correction => Blair 1997-2007
- manuel_w 4y agoI appreciate the effort you put into compiling this list, but need to point out some flaws: 1. You listed the Austrian presidents rather than Prime Ministers. Under normal circumstances, the Presidents dutys are mostly of representative nature. They don't need to come from the same party and are not elected at the same time. 2. > left-wing parties have ruled for the past X years in ... The Schüssel governments from 2000 to 2007 were composed exclusively of right-wing parties, every government since then was a coalition of both right- and left-wing parties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Austria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Austria