by WorldTribune Staff, May 6, 2025 Real World News
Governments once in lockstep with the World Economic Forum have seen founder Klaus Schwab toppled from power following the monumental victory of Donald Trump and the rise of Europe-wide conservative political forces no longer on the margins.
Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party has eclipsed the political establishment in London, and populist leaders across Europe were hailing the victory on Sunday in Romania's presidential election first round of George Simion, a vocal admirer of U.S. President Donald Trump who envisions a MAGA-style revitalization of his nation.
Simion, founder of the Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR), won more than 40 percent of the vote, defeating his rivals by a wide margin. Centrist Bucharest Mayor Nicușor Dan came in second with just under 21 percent. Simion and Dan are set to face off in a runoff election on May 18.
“Congratulations to George Simion, Vice President of ECR Party, on the excellent result in the first round of the presidential elections! Wishing you the best of luck in the second round!” said Mateusz Morawiecki, former Polish prime minister and current president of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group in the European Parliament.
“In Romania the people finally voted, freely, with their heads and hearts. With all due respect to the ‘gentlemen’ of Brussels and their dirty tricks. Bravo George Simion!” said Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, leader of the League party.
“Congratulations to our ally George Simion who came out on top in the first round of the presidential election in Romania,” said Marion Maréchal, a senior official in France’s conservative Reconquête! party.
As Simion's MAGA Romania-style campaign was rolling, populist politics were also dominating the headlines in Great Britain and Germany.
Nigel Farage’s populist Reform UK party scored major local election victories on Thursday in England, including a mayoral seat and dozens of local councilors, and victory in a parliamentary by-election, according to HotNews.ro.
The parliamentary seat of Runcorn and Helsby was clinched by Reform candidate Sarah Pochin by just six votes following a full recount. The seat had previously been held by the ruling Labour Party, which won it last year by nearly 15,000 votes.
“This was a huge night for Reform,” Farage told reporters. “This is the Labour heartland, and their vote collapsed — with a big chunk coming to us.”
Reform UK also won the mayoral race in Greater Lincolnshire, where former Conservative minister Andrea Jenkyns became the most powerful elected official in the party so far, representing a region of around one million people.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer's government has suffered the fastest drop in popularity of any newly elected administration.
Farage credited the Reform UK party’s success to voter fury over Starmer's failure on immigration, the cost-of-living crisis, and what Reform calls “net stupid zero” policies.
“34,000 migrants have crossed the Channel since the general election. People have had enough. They are watching their communities change, their wages stagnate, and their bills soar,” Farage said.
In Germany, Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has filed a lawsuit against the nation’s political police force over its attempt to designate AfD as "confirmed right-wing extremist" and essentially ban what is the country's second largest political party.
The deadline for Germany’s political police force — established after the Second World War to protect the “liberal democratic basic order” and to prevent any deviation — to retract a decision to classify the AfD as “confirmed right-wing extremist” or else face legal action passed on Monday morning.
The AfD said the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) declined to respond to their legal letter and so they were launching a lawsuit to challenge the decision in court.
The BfV classification means it can spy on the party, its politicians, and its members without restriction.
The AfD had called the BfV classification “manifestly unlawful” and said they’d filed for proceedings and for an urgent motion at the Cologne administrative court, the city where the BfV is based, reports Handelsblatt.
The new Interior Minister, Alexander Dobrindt, who is being sworn in on Tuesday, reportedly believes the BfV decision was not properly reviewed before being promulgated, and that once he is in office this week he intends to have it reviewed.
Dobrindt said: “This report will not disappear into a filing cabinet; it will be expertly evaluated by the Federal Ministry of the Interior… [I want] the top brass of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution to present this report to me, to discuss it, and to explain it to me in detail.”
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