Last Sunday’s election results were something of a wash for the populist-right. In Romania, nationalist George Simion lost his presidential election to a moderate centrist. In the first round of Poland’s presidential election, the establishment candidate, Rafal Trzaskowski, did slightly worse than expected, only narrowly beating the populist-right Law & Justice (Pis) candidate, Karol Nawroscki (and the total number of votes for anti-government candidates surpassed those of pro-government candidates). Finally, in Portugal, the populist-right Chega did unexpectedly well, tying the mainstream center-left and effectively ending that country’s two-party system.
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