by Constantinopolis » Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:43 pm

Hmmm. I have noticed that émigré communities fromdifferent countries (not only Muslim ones) tend to be significantly more right-wing than the general population at home. For example, in the Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2014, the openly fascist parties (Svoboda and Right Sector) received a combined 14.66% of the votes from Ukrainians living abroad, but only 6.51% of the votes at home. This is an extreme example, of course, but the trend also holds true for the hard-right and center-right, among the majority of Eastern European communities living abroad. In the 2009 Romanian presidential election, the population at home narrowly voted for the center-left candidate, but the émigré community overwhelmingly favoured the right-wing candidate and actually swung the election in his favour.

Yes. Erdogan's meet-up during the campaign period in Strasbourg was to a full house in a large meeting hall. We don't know the records of the French Turkish diaspora's votes, but I know the AKP won in Germany. Just as in the last elections, as Nidaa Tounes won in actual Tunisia, Ennahda won in the Tunisian diaspora in France.

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