Two flops in one day won't completely erase the dreams of the anti-euro populist front but they will certainly leave their mark. In France Marine Le Pen he loses the magic touch of the Europeans in Sunday's administrative vote (24%) and is outclassed by the revived Sarkozy even if he enters more than a thousand municipal ballots.
In Spain, in the administrative test in Andalusia, We can it does even worse, it doesn't break through and it doesn't go beyond 15%. The landslide of the anti-euro front is crowned by the polls carried out in view of the general elections of May 7 in Great Britain where the eurosceptic and nationalist Nigel Farage falls conspicuously and stands between 14 and 17% of the votes.
It is too early to say that the nightmare is over for lovers of the euro and Europe but we are close and, above all, the disappointing French and Spanish results have all the flavor of a lesson for Matteo Salvini's League, an ally of Le Pen, and for Beppe Grillo's M5S which remotely resembles Podemos and has not scrupled to ally itself in Europe with Farage's ultra-right.
When tested with reality, anti-euro rhetoric reveals all its inadequacy, even if it will continue to spread hoaxes and poisons among the most gullible public opinion.
What does the rude awakening of eurosceptics? From the improvements in the economic situation and the first signs of employment recovery? Certainly the exit from the recession and the first flashes of recovery have their weight. But they are not the only reason.
Particular attention also deserves the considerations of the French political scientist Dominique Reyniè who observes: "The example of Tsipras in Greece is showing that, when an anti-system party wins the elections, then it fails to govern and the anti-EU rhetoric vanishes faced with harsh reality.
