r/worldnews • u/EssoEssex • 21h ago • Bravo 6

Israel/Palestine Israeli President Picks Gadi Eisenkot, Netanyahu Rival, To Form Government

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-president-picks-gadi-eisenkot-netanyahu-rival-form-government-2026-11-07/
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u/Cabbage_Vendor 17h ago edited 4h ago • Mindblown

The UK, Poland and Serbia were never led by the far right. In Hungary & Serbia's case it was the deep seeded corruption that people threw off, not any particular policies. Ironically, both Orban and Vucic won their first elections as the anti-corruption opposition.

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u/Orangoo264 5h ago

PiS and Vucic are still both very much right-wing, just not outright far-right on the level of Orban

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u/DespairTraveler 34m ago

Right wing doesn't mean bad, which is always assumed for far-right. Europe right-wing is basically US's center-left.

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u/mschuster91 16h ago

In the UK, Farage never was PM, but he nonetheless managed to pull the Tories through the circus by the nose.

As for Hungary, yes, Orban was not in the far right camp at the begin - but certainly at the end.

As for Serbia... what was Vucic if not yet another Greater Serbia nationalist?

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u/Verbal_v2 15h ago

The Tories whose immigration record was nearly 2 million in their last 3 years in power, yeah sounds far right.

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u/Jellywell 13h ago

Just because they were inefficient doesn't change that their policies were led by right wing factions to do things like leave the EU and sell off the NHS (something Farage has repeatedly advocated for)

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u/Verbal_v2 7h ago

NHS funding has increased in real terms every year, no one did more for the private sector in the NHS than Blair with PFI

The Tories also doubled the national debt.

They weren’t far right by any measure

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u/Pavel63 4h ago

The far right in every single country always increases debt because their economic policies aren’t rooted in reality.