France is also overshadowed in the UK, the response to the polling stations from terrorist attacks. However, the Brexit could make the parliamentary elections on Thursday exciting.
Madrid, Paris and now London: It is not new that democratic and free elections, become the target of terrorism, not even in Europe. In 2004, Islamists attacked the transport in the Spanish capital, just a few days before the elections, 192 people died in the attack. In April, it comes shortly before the French presidential election on the Paris Champs-Elysee to a gunfight.
Now the attack on London Bridge: a Few days before the early elections in the UK, a vehicle is driving in pedestrian, people die. It is the second stop within about two weeks. The country is shocked and the parties agree to the election campaign.
No one is benefiting in the election campaign by the Terror
This prevents, at least, that politicians are given to questions of internal security once again, an unfortunate figure, as after the attack on a pop Concert on the 22. May happen in Manchester. “Both leaders of the major parties in a bad light,”says political scientist Anthony Glees of the University of British Buckingham in an Interview with Deutsche Welle.
The recent terrorist attack in London had intensified the Controversy surrounding Prime Minister Theresa May of the Conservative and Challenger Jeremy Corbyn, the left-liberal Labour Party.
Although May on the Sunday after the attack in London determined and proclaimed a Plan to fight terror. As the incumbent, you would have to benefit currently, in principle, more internal political issues, because they Allow you to.
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However, her past as a Minister of the interior, was May more likely to be fatal, she was involved but to the failings of the internal security of the past few years. “We know that there are about 23,000 suspects jihadists in the UK,” says Glees. “We can’t control but, because Theresa May has abolished as Minister of the interior, 2010, these controls.”
Also Corbyn was acting after the attack rather unfortunate. He asked May, despite the agreed election campaign, pause to cancel. “Labour under Jeremy Corbyn, of course, has sympathised with the IRA, and has not voted in the election campaign, not only against the command to open fire, but also for negotiations with terrorists,” says Glees. After the assassination in Manchester he promised but in the event of an election victory for “more police on the streets”.
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Inner turmoil is the new leitmotif of the country: “The policy is powerless, because the UK is in a very difficult position,” says Glees. “We voted last year for the Brexit, without any politician says, what Brexit really means.” The country is in a constant state of Crisis, a political vicious circle, the expert said: “we are, Therefore, tire easily suit.”
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What are the English, the Welsh, the Scots and the Northern Irish on Thursday, ultimately, the rash, if you are districts in the 650’s choice for their candidate votes, is unclear. Because in addition to the internal security, it is also a question of the future relationship to Europe and the question of how the country in a few years want to look. Scotland’s path to independence, there is also debate as to the future of the National health service (NHS), an Institution that is the British Holy.
“The British are prudent,” says Glees. And democracy is not as vulnerable to Terror as it may seem. In France, the extreme-right Marine Le Pen lost the recent presidential election. The advertising with fear and horror scenarios of their policy in the national foreclosure could not prevail against the pro-European campaign of the young bearer of hope of Emmanuel Macron, the newly founded party to match the “En Marche”, “Forward” means.
In Spain, the conservative people’s party in 2004, lost the government mandate, because they claimed persistently, the Basque terrorist group ETA for the attack in Madrid responsible. This accusation brought the torn Spain against the government. In the UK the parties to hold back after the attack on Sunday with blame. But whoever emerges as the winner of the vote, for him, the work starts properly.