Formed in 1982, the British National Party campaigns under the slogan “Rights for Whites.” Since the early 1990s, it has dominated the country’s extreme-right fringe movement. According to Britain’s Anti-Nazi League, the BNP is involved in neo-Nazi activities and denies the Holocaust.
Support for the anti-immigrant National Front has fallen from about 15 percent to 10 percent, thanks to an economic upturn and a rift between party leader Jean-Marie Le Pen and his rivals. But Le Pen’s popularity remains high. Last week he defended Haider, saying that “according to the elementary rules of democracy, Haider’s party should take its place in government.”
Founded in 1991 as a separatist movement for northern Italy, the Northern League has become the country’s most vocal far-right party. It has been involved in the collapse of at least two Italian governments. Last week its leaders filed a motion of support for Haider with Rome.
According to the website of the Swedish Democrats, the country is becoming “a criminal and multicultural infested cesspool.” The party won 14,000 votes in the 1994 elections, but carries little political clout.
The Danish People’s Party, which spun off from the Progress Party five years ago, used its anti-immigrant platform to win 7 percent of the vote in the last national election. The DPP currently holds 13 of Parliament’s 179 seats, as well as one seat in the European Parliament.
