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"The trend is up. There is no real reason to expect that it will stop anytime soon," Prof Matthijs Rooduijn, a political scientist from the University of Amsterdam, said.
Jeremy Cliffe, the editorial director and senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank, said the global turn to the Right was the result of three interconnected trends: "The globalisation-driven decline of organised labour, rising identity politics harnessed more successfully by the Right than the Left, and a general tendency among Leftist forces to fragment rather than unite."