After Brexit, Europe is preparing to face new political turmoil. The high-risk electoral appointments scheduled in Austria and the Netherlands will have a strong impact on the future of the European Union and on the unity projects confirmed by Ventotene by the leaders of Italy, France and Germany, obviously without neglecting the constitutional referendum in November in Italy i whose stabilizing or destabilizing effects will concern not only our country and the Renzi government but the political balance of the entire Old Continent.
Vienna, the second round of presidential elections will be repeated on 2 October annulled by the Constitutional Court after the appeal presented by the ultra-nationalist party FPÖ following some irregularities that occurred during the polls. On 22 May, surprisingly, the independent candidate of the Greens Alexander Van der Bellen managed to steal the presidency from the exponent of the far-right political force Norbert Hofer with only 31 votes, making the whole continent.
However, the next round of elections could have a different result. According to a Gallup poll conducted for the popular newspaper Oesterreich, the Austrian electorate would be inclined to change the vote cast in the May runoff, giving the victory to Hofer. Speaking in numbers, the latter would have a six percentage points advantage over the opponent: 53% for the ultra-right candidate against the 47% recorded by Van der Bellen. According to the same survey, 55 of the interviewees would in fact have declared that they wanted to change their vote, while a further 12% would be thinking of changing.
Ma Holland is also worrying the European Union in which the far-right, anti-Islamic and Eurosceptic PVV, led by Geert Wilders continues to gain support. On 24 June, immediately after the referendum that decreed the exit of the United Kingdom from the EU, Wilders declared: “Thursday 23 June 2016 will go down in history as Independence Day. Now it's time for a new start, also in the Netherlands."
Amsterdam will go to the polls in May 2017 and, according to polls, Wilders' rise to power becomes increasingly likely. Indeed, according to the surveys, the leader of the far-right party can count on a consensus three times higher than that recorded in the 2012 elections when the PVV obtained 10,1% of the votes (-5,4% compared to the 2-year elections before) and 15 seats in the Chamber.
According to what the Eurosceptic leader has declared in recent months, if he manages to win, the PVV would propose a referendum on the Brexit model.
