{"id":169,"date":"2020-05-23T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T15:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/?p=169"},"modified":"2020-11-30T09:03:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T09:03:44","slug":"support-for-europes-leaders-during-coronavirus-crisis-but-will-it-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/more.bham.ac.uk\/populism-in-action\/2020\/05\/23\/support-for-europes-leaders-during-coronavirus-crisis-but-will-it-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Support for Europe\u2019s Leaders During Coronavirus Crisis \u2014 But Will It Last?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Euronews reports on support for European leaders despite high levels of deaths in their countries from Coronavirus.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article<\/a>\u00a0draws on analysis from the Populism in Action Project\u2019s Daniele Albertazzi:<\/p>\n

This is the most serious crisis that has hit Europe since the Second World War. It is quite well-known that in times of crisis, people do tend to rally behind the flag and the government of the day.<\/p>\n

Governments have been very shrewd and clever in exploiting this and using metaphors that remind people of war-time periods, so the virus has become an enemy that the population has to defeat by pulling together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Right now people on the streets are saying that this is not the moment to have a go at the government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But Albertazzi draws on findings from PiAP,\u00a0featured in a series on EA WorldView<\/a>, to consider possible challenges ahead for those in power.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can see in countries like Italy, Switzerland, and Finland that there has been a short period of truce between governments and opposition or more radical and more moderate parties,\u201d he says. \u201cAs weeks go past, people will start realizing the enormous financial effect of the crisis as more and more stories emerge about the mishandling of the pandemic and the big mistakes that were made by governments.\u201d<\/p>\n

Populist parties face their own challenges, after they \u201cseemed to have initially accepted that they needed to tone down their criticisms of governments or their opponents\u201d, if they try to use Coronavirus to assume power.<\/p>\n

It is easy to have a go at governments, opponents or the European Union. But there is certainly a risk that populist parties might jump on the bandwagon of criticism too early and misjudge the mood of the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a crisis of such huge proportions that we may still be in the stage where the public and business associations want to see more unity rather than division.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At same time, he assesses, \u201cThey have to demonstrate that they have remained fundamentally different from what they see as traditional parties.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Euronews reports on support for European leaders despite high levels of deaths in their countries from Coronavirus. The article\u00a0draws on analysis from the Populism in Action Project\u2019s Daniele Albertazzi: This is the most serious crisis that has hit Europe since the Second World War. It is quite well-known that in times of crisis, people do …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-comparing-populisms","7":"category-populism-in-action-analysis","8":"category-the-project-in-the-media","10":"without-featured-image"},"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","ab-block-post-grid-landscape":"","ab-block-post-grid-square":"","atomic-blocks-featured-image":"","atomic-blocks-featured-image-wide":"","atomic-blocks-logo":""},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

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