It was telling that the right-wing populist party that surged in Portugal’s general election in March 2024 is called Chega! (Enough!). The message millions of Europeans seem set to deliver to the EU establishment in the June elections is that they have all had enough of being dictated to.
The populist democratic revolt is spreading into almost every EU member state, upending the political order with the rise of sovereigntist and conservative parties—even in such bastions of socialism and social democracy as Portugal and the Netherlands.
