In the latest blow to the European Commission's globalist ambitions, Andrej Babiš’s ANO party has won the Czech parliamentary election held on Oct. 3–4, securing 34.5 percent of the vote and 80 of the 200 seats in the Chamber of Deputies.
Although there was a strong margin of victory the result it leaves Babiš short of the 101 seats required for a majority and looking at forming a government in coalition with smaller, more radical parties of the right.
The SPOLU coalition, led by outgoing Prime Minister Petr Fiala, suffered heavy losses, taking just 23.4 percent and 52 seats. The centrist Mayors and Independents (STAN) followed with 11.2 percent and 22 seats, while the Czech Pirate Party rebounded strongly with 9 percent and 18 seats. Tomio Okamura’s nationalist Freedom and Direct Democracy (SPD) secured 7.8 percent and 15 seats, and the anti-establishment Motorists party secured 6.8 percent and 13 seats.
Though Czechia (formerly the Czech Republic,) is not one of the major economies in the EU this victory for Euroscepics and Nationalists continues a trend among EU member states to vote in more conservative or nationalist governments that will oppose moves by the controlling EU Commission in Brussels towards federalisation and further economic integration. With the two biggest EU members, France and Germany both in the throes of economic and political crisis, Eurosceptic governments in power in Italy, Netherlands, Sweden and Austria while Poland is struggling with a constitutional crisis it is likely the unelected Bureaucrats of the EU Commission will lash out and try to use authoritarian measures to reverse this trend.
In an interview with RMXnews Belgian lawmaker Gerolf Annemans, the Vlaams Belang MEP and president of the European Identity and Democracy group, warned that greater censorship of conservative voices and publications is just around the corner, and advised centre right and right-wing groups on how to ensure their message continues to reach the public.
He says opponnts of EU federalisation, globalism and cultural Marxism across Europe should begin contingency planning for the inevitable near future event when right-wing platforms are targeted for complete censorship by an increasingly authoritarian establishment Annermans told Remix News at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Hungary last week
“Globally, we expect that we have to seek alternatives. That’s why we now organize visiting homes on a very large scale. We are shifting toward means that give us the opportunity to reach the electorate even if we are cut off on social media,” said Vlaams Belang MEP Gerolf Annemans.
“We have new means to talk to the people. People want to hear us. So, the people are open to hear and to listen to us and we adapt to the situation. We expect social media to be shut down for normal political communication,” the MEP warned.
Vlaams Belang is a Flemish nationalist party that proposes independence for the region of Flanders from the rest of Belgium. It has had considerable success in recent years, particularly on Facebook where it has amassed 620,000 followers, helping the party push its core messages and propel itself to the top of the polls in the region. Furthermore, the party is the most popular party with young people, and a key element of that popularity is the party’s efforts on TikTok and Facebook, including substantial monetary investments into the platforms.
“We invest where we can and we use the means that we have, but of course that cannot rely [on social media] for more than a few years because we see what the European Union is doing with the Digital Services Act,” he said.
The Digital Services Act is the European Union’s attempt to regulate social media, placing requirements on digital platforms to monitor content and remove that deemed to be 'hate speech' or fail the requirement of being “socially desirable.” The vague definitions of “harmful content” and “disinformation” could result in tech platforms acting in an overzealous manner in order to avoid financial penalties imposed by the European Commission for failing to comply with the regulation.
The act is widely seen not as a means of providing safety to naive or unskilled unternet users but an attack on the right to free speech. Control of the right to free expression has long been an ambition of the EU Commissioners.
However it is easy for website owners to find a hosting service based outside EU jurisdiction and for users to access those sites via a VPN (virtual private network) to evade blocks on accessing certtain sites. The inadequacy of the Digital Servives Act was exposed a few weeks ago when service providers were forced to introduce age verification challenges for access to sites offering pornography. There was no reduction in traffic with porn sites but an upsurge in users taking advantage of VPNs or block chain systens such as TOR.
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