"This is a strike against rightist policies, to demand new policies serving the Portuguese people".
One of the most powerful Conservatives in the Cameron cabinet, Education Minister Michael Gove, compared Mr. Cameron's mood to that of Margaret Thatcher, the Conservative prime minister in the 1980s, who met an incipient revolt among Conservative backbenchers — centrists who had rejected some of her rightist policies — by saying, "The lady's not for turning".
Mr Faymann had negotiated with the BZÖ on the proposal, thereby lending the rightist party some policy credibility.Big losersWhile the FPÖ and BZÖ both benefited from voters exercising a protest vote, the opposition Greens were unable to mobilise support in the election.
Although the rightist parties have distinct policies and have been unable to coalesce around a united platform, they share an antipathy toward Germany's liberal immigration policies and have generally been regarded as neofascist in orientation.
For over a decade the only acceptable opinion was one in support of the policies of the rightist Likud party, accompanied by a refusal to discuss the underlying issue of the occupation and its impact on Israeli society.
So flexible that former Likudniks were part of a group that supported policies that were far from their rightist roots.
Nearly 70percentt of voters backed the new rules, and the extent of the victory for policies closely identified with Mr. Blocher's rightist party surprised observers.
Whatever the outcome of the general election in September, a "grand coalition" also exists of Ms. Merkel's center-rightists and the Social Democrats, providing a buttress on many policy issues.
Indeed, there is little policy difference between the "populist" Trump, the ultra-rightist Ted Cruz, and the supposedly more moderate Marco Rubio.
The reaction to this of the Rome rightist daily Il Tempo, not noted for the consistency of its editorial policy, was that the Pope seemed to be undermining the very foundations of the Italian state.
