22 y/o proud Dutch-Moroccan Muslim | MSc Poli Sci, BA Middle East + Arabic Studies | Political analyst
@EuropeElects
for 🇳🇱🇸🇪🇧🇪|Palestine will be free🇵🇸
THE CAPTIONS ON THESE PICS IN ARABIC LITERALLY SAY:
“First bread in 130 days”
“First shawarma in 130 days”
“Our life is just standing and standing in queues to get a fourth of a bread”
“People are coming back hoping to get a little bit more”
That seems like an underfed society
Welcome to Belgium’s judicial system👇
A group of rich posh students who tortured a young man who wanted to join their fraternity to death
-> pay max €400 in damages
-> sentenced to do community work
A YouTuber who exposed them
-> 3 months in prison
-> pay €20,000 in damages
Because:
•Catalans aren’t living under a military occupation
•Catalans are Spanish citizens with the same rights while millions of Palestinians aren’t
•Catalans aren’t being exterminated by the Spanish state as the IDF is doing
•Catalans aren’t forced out of their homes
Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez wants unilateral recognition of a Palestinian state.
If he chooses to meddle in a distant conflict about which he knows little, so will I.
Time for unilateral recognition of Catalonia independence!
Why should Catalonia continue to be occupied by Spain?
I wonder why you don’t show us the map for the 2019 election in which current Ukrainian president Zelenskiy got his best results in the EAST (more Russian-speaking) of the country.
>be prime minister of France
>run for president of France
>fail in the Socialist Party primaries
>move to Spain
>join the party Cs
>run for mayor in Barcelona
>fail
>party splits in two over supporting a leftist mayor
>return to France
>run for parliament
>fail
>delete Twitter
Reminder that the EU not only chose to ignore the ethnic cleansing of Armenians out of Artsakh
But it actively supported the perpetrator by increasing oil imports from Azerbaijan, funding the state behind the ethnic cleansing
It showed the EU’s values are merely words, not more
*Palestinian eats bread for the first time in months*
This delusional Israeli: LOOK LOOK THEYRE LYING!!! WE CAN BOMB THEM ANYWAY BECAUSE THEY ARENT STARVING
Leader of the Liberals in Stockholm, Jan Jönsson, dressed up as a drag queen today protesting far-right SD’s call to not allow drag queens reading books to children.
He also recorded a video of him reading a children’s book and calls upon his party to be tougher against SD.
The German far-right AfD's youth-wing held meetings with members discussing what to do with Jews and people with a foreign background:
-Jews put in Ghettos
-people with a foreign background put in labour camps with not too much food so they'll emigrate
-state should use violence
Welcome to Dutch politics:
The leader of a party that could be the largest in November's elections (BBB) doesn't want to become prime minister because she's afraid of flying and doesn't like international politics.
"Enfado" y "malestar" en el PP con el adelanto electoral anunciado por Sánchez: creen que el presidente busca desviar el foco de la victoria de los populares en varias autonomías y municipios
Wtf is happening in Catalonia… 😳
Separatist parties are getting slashed as 35% of the vote is counted. PSOE is surging to its highest result in 15 years.
Catalonia is saving the left from big losses it seems.
The Belgian prime minister who accidentally sang the FRENCH anthem when asked to sing the Belgian one is Yves Leterme
PM twice: from March till Dec. 2008 & from 2009 till 2011 of which 1.5 year in caretaker status!
Here’s a thread on how disastrous Leterme’s premiership was👇🧵
Friendly reminder that the Temple Mount was turned into a garbage dump during the Sassanids before the Arabs came and people in Palestine converted to Islam.
SO MUCH SPACE LOST TO A FUCKING PARKING LOT???? WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU AMERICANS???
DUTCH MUNICIPALITIES WOULD DO UNSPEAKABLE THINGS TO HAVE SO MUCH EMPTY LAND TO USE.
BREAKING: The 2026 FIFA World Cup Final will be played at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.
MetLife Stadium was chosen over SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles and AT&T Stadium in Dallas.
Lesson of today (we already knew this):
Without Catalonia, the right would have won a comfortable majority. But Catalonia chose today to save Sánchez’ ass.
The right (PP-VOX) only get like 1/5, 1/6 of the vote there.
A hostage was going on for hours in the Dutch town of Ede in a cafe/pub.
Dutch right-wing Twitter immediately blamed 4 Eritreans asylum seekers for the hostage with no evidence.
Well, the hostage taker has been arrested. So let’s look what he looked like…
Oh the racism! 🙄
34% of the Swedish population was either born abroad or has a parent who was. One of the highest rates in the West. At this point, any wish to return to a homogeneous Sweden is just coping.
People have to get used and try to live TOGETHER. Not further segregate from each other.
I really don’t understand why in hell Hamas is doing this kamikaze operation. Lives killed for nothing. And it will just worsen the already worsening situation for Palestinians in the region.
So Europe witnessed a full-on ethnic cleansing, probably the biggest we’ve seen in three decades, today but it doesn’t seem like a lot of politicians care… 😐
According to a poll by YouGov on Israel/Palestine:
Arm trade with Israel should be banned
🇮🇹65%
🇧🇪62%
🇫🇷51%
🇸🇪50%
🇩🇪49%
Israel is committing a genocide in Gaza
🇮🇹49%
🇸🇪46%
🇧🇪43%
🇫🇷34%
🇩🇪33%
So Sweden gets a new right-wing government: M-KD-L minority with far-right SD support.
The parties call their agreement the “Tidö Agreement” named after the place where they negotiated it.
I dove into the 63-page document. So here’s a thread what the four parties agreed on 🧵
It’s now illegal in Spain to post polls, as elections are in 5 days
GESOP continues posting polls through an Australian newspaper. I don’t live in Spain: so here’s the illegal poll of today!
🔵🟢PP+Vox: 169 seats
Junts is needed for a majority. This would lead to new elections
Be Sergio Massa
Be Argentina’s economy minister
Oversee the collapse of the economy
Hyperinflation
Currency collapses
Still get most votes when running for president because the other main candidate is batshit crazy
The Spanish elections results per rich-poor percentile of neighbourhoods.
The richest neighbourhoods have the best results for PP and VOX. But the worst for Sumar and PSOE.
PSOE is most popular in poor neighbourhoods. Sumar is relatively stable, peaking at higher middle class.
All talk in international media about a far-right VOX surge in Spain. It turns out VOX are the biggest losers 🥳
They lose 19 seats! And there is no right-wing majority!
BREAKING: France's foreign minister that the 'French Cultural Institute in Gaza was hit a few days ago in a way that caused astonishment, incomprehension and which led France to call for explanations from the Israeli authorities'
New SPÖ-leader Andreas Babler’s ideas for Austria:
🇺🇦Ukraine should become an EU-member
🔧Legal 30 hour workweek
🇪🇺Abolish unanimity votes in the European Council
🇦🇹Make it easier to obtain Austrian citizenship
🚗Decrease speed limit from 130 to 100 km/h
💰Introduce a wealth tax
Today exactly 9 years ago, 17 July 2014, 298 innocent people were shot down by a Russian BUK missile in flight MH17
196 were Dutch. Multiple families were from my hometown Hilversum. Hence every year in July these sunflowers are placed throughout town to commemorate them.
Chili be like:
>elect left-wing constitutional council
>constitutional council drafts left-wing constitution
>vote against left-wing constitution
>elect right-wing constitutional council
>constitutional council drafts right-wing constitution
>vote against right-wing constitution
Media wrote a lot about a “right-wing surge” in Spain…
2011, PP had 45%
2016, PP+Cs+VOX had 47%
2019, PP+VOX+Cs had 42%
Today, PP+VOX (Cs didn’t run) have 45%
What surge are we talking about?
PSOE’s election results under Pedro Sánchez as leader:
2015, 22.0%
2016, 22.6%
April 2019, 28.7%
November 2019, 28.0%
2023, 31.7%
📈
To win almost 4 points after 5 years in government is quite impressive
This is GOLD!
Meloni was asked by Schumer whether she could say what the Italian tricolour stood for. She didn't know. And now M5S is caricaturing Miss "We Defend Our Identity".
🇦🇹BREAKING NEWS
A major mistake was made at the SPÖ party conference this Saturday. The win for more conservative candidate Doskozil turns out to be WRONG
The left-wing candidate Babler has won most delegate votes: 317
I repeat: Doskozil is no longer the SPÖ-leader, Babler is
•PP sweeps local elections
•Call snap election
•Leftist allies stop infighting; form a joint list
•PP struggles to form local govts with VOX
•Non-voters mobilise fearing VOX
•Gain seats after 4 years in govt
•No PP-VOX majority
•PP humiliated
Dark Sánchez, trust the plan
The Palestinian Authority (PA) opposes the release of prominent Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti in any future exchange deal between the resistance and the occupation.
Barghouti is a prominent and popular political figure within Fatah, serving as a member of both the Fatah Central…
This video has reached people who don’t know anything about Spanish politics.
Okay so,
The video warns against a parliamentary majority of conservative PP and far-right Vox. It calls upon people to vote. The woman at the end is Yolanda Díaz, Spain’s deputy PM and Sumar leader
The last few days in Spanish politics👇
Sánchez: guys, my family is suffering from intimidation, I can't do this to them. I might resign
Far-left/separatists: told you
Right: 🤯
PSOE supporters: YOU ABSOLUTELY DO NOT! WITHOUT YOU WE ARE DEAD! STAYYYYY!
Sánchez: okeh, I stay
🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez will be reelected by parliament next week as Spain’s prime minister, forming his 3rd govt
It’ll contain his own centre-left PSOE and left-wing Sumar, supported by a wide range of regional parties
Here are the policy agreements, some of which controversial
👇 🧵
🇦🇷Argentina be like:
>Peronist centre-left in power
>Economy crashes
>High inflation
>Currency collapse
>Incumbent president so unpopular, doesn’t go for reelection
>Right-wing libertarian 1st in primaries + leads in polls
>centre-left Peronist finishes 1st in first round anyway
🇪🇸🧵Tomorrow Sánchez announces his fate as Spain’s PM. The possibilities:
A: he resigns to protect his wife from far-right intimidation, despite his party begging not to
B: confidence vote in parliament on his premiership
C: he doesn’t resign, business as usual (unlikely imo)
People will keep saying that today's far-right has nothing to do with the Nazis' horrors in WW2 and that comparisons are just 'exaggeration' while the far-right is literally proposing ethnic ghettos and even concentration camps
Via Der Spiegel.👇
PiS is declaring itself the winner of the elections because they’re the largest party.
But there is a majority of parties now in parliament that strictly rule out a new PiS government. LOL
I get flashbacks from the Spanish elections of PP doing this too.
Of course, I am panicking. The man whose wish is to deport me from my country of birth might win.
Wilders was the first politician I knew as a 8 y/o, I remember the feeling of being scared that he’d deport me. And that fear is back. And this is why I’m politically active.