Ok, Zoomer: is Gen Z shifting right?

I moved from my cloudy hometown Eindhoven to sunny Bologna for my master’s program almost a year after far-right *Fratelli d’Italia*’s (FdI) general election win in 2022. Two months later in November 2023, I anxiously watched from afar as the Dutch went to the polls for their own snap general election. I fidgeted restlessly on my phone, watching as with each update, every municipality around my hometown lit up [Geert Wilders](https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2023/11/24/who-is-geert-wilders-the-surprise-winner-of-the-dutch-election) - blue on the map – though peroxide-blond would have been more emblematic a color. The sea of *Partij voor de Vrijheid* (PVV)-majority municipalities was only ever rarely interrupted by little red islands representing Green-Left-Labour party (GL-PvdA) voters in major cities or university towns. The voter breakdowns then revealed that Geert Wilders owed his landslide victory to the support of the Dutch youth, and over the next eight months I would come to witness the real [impact of young voters](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/01/younger-voters-far-right-europe) on the rise of far-right populist parties throughout Europe.

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https://www.eurac.edu/en/blogs/eureka/ok-zoomer-is-gen-z-shifting-right