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This chapter focuses on parties belonging to the populist right-wing I&D family, and specifically those who were in national government at the time of the campaign. While these parties did express Eurosceptic sympathies, they did not focus their campaign messaging on the EU having now taken office; in fact, these politicians appeared more preoccupied than might have been expected with domestic politics.
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We use these labels as synonyms in this chapter.
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Besides the above-mentioned Lega, the FPÖ got three seats, while EKRE got only one.
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Table 13.1A in the Appendix provides a summary table of frequencies.
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We consider the party classification based on the Capel Hill Expert Survey (Bakker et al. 2020).
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Hayek, L., Jenny, M., Mariotto, C. (2022). Europe or Homeland? How Populist Right-Wing Parties in National Governments Campaigned on Facebook in the 2019 European Elections. In: Novelli, E., Johansson, B., Wring, D. (eds) The 2019 European Electoral Campaign. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98993-4_14
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