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Caspar van den Berg: "The ecological dream of urban dwellers must not shatter the rural world"

2021-03-18T19:10:34.890Z


INTERVIEW - This professor of political science at the University of Groningen is concerned about the rise in territorial disappearances in the Netherlands. He warns against an ecological transition that would place the cost of change too exclusively on peripheral regions, which are already disadvantaged.


LE FIGARO.

- You work in a comparative way on the fractures of Western societies.

How do you read the result of the Dutch elections?

Caspar VAN DEN BERGER.

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The result of the election underlines the continuation of the current trend, in which the cosmopolitan left of the cities and the left of the popular classes are turning their backs more and more.

The trend is self-reinforcing.

The more the cosmopolitan left goes towards socio-liberals like the D66 party, the more the working class relies on rising populist right-wing parties like the Forum for Democracy or the new small party JA21

(the other populist Geert Wilders losing points for their benefit, Editor's note)

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All this shows that we ultimately have more to do with a socio-cultural conflict than a socio-economic one, and that the conflict is situated more within the left itself than between the left and the right.

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The left in the Netherlands has been fragmented for a long time, but these elections show an even greater dislocation.

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Source: lefigaro

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