Global report on Left’s unpopularity spells doom for Albo

Support for the Left is the lowest it’s been in decades, a new report says — and it could be bad news for the PM as he seeks re-election.

Lefty political parties across the world are now more unpopular than any time since the Cold War, a staggering analysis of recent elections shows.

And it potentially spells bad news for Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as battles against rising support for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton ahead of this year’s federal election.

The Left suffered a record-low average of just 45 per cent of votes in dozens of ballots held globally last year, according to the analysis of 73 democratic elections conducted by the Telegraph.

In the United States and Western Europe, progressives were even more unpopular — with the left-leaning parties securing only 42 per cent of their respective votes.

It’s not just in the United States — support for right-leaning political parties is on the rise worldwide. Picture: Allison Robbert/AFP

The report could spell doom for Labor’s Anthony Albanese. Picture: NewsWire/Martin Ollman

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is ahead in the polls. Picture: NewsWire/David Geraghty

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The Right, meanwhile, won 57 per cent of the average votes — representing the widest gap since 1990, the analysis found.

The global demise of the political left comes off the back of President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide election win.

Mr Trump, who will be inaugurated on Monday (Tuesday in Australia), secured the popular vote with 77 million votes compared to the 75 million his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, raked in.

The Left’s declining popularity is only expected to continue, too, experts say.

In the wake of Ms Harris’ defeat, leftist parties in Australia, Canada and Germany are already predicted to suffer similar losses in upcoming ballots.

Progressive Justin Trudeau has stepped down as Canada’s prime minister. Picture: Dave Chan/AFP

Democrat Kamala Harris suffered a brutal defeat in the US election. Picture: Saul Loeb/AFP

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“The trend is up. There is no real reason to expect that it will stop anytime soon,” Prof Matthijs Rooduijn, a political scientist from the University of Amsterdam, told the outlet.

In Canada, polls are already showing that its firebrand Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre is the favourite to replace Prime Minister Justin Trudeau after the lefty leader’s abrupt resignation earlier this month.

Meanwhile, in Australia, the Coalition has inched ahead of Mr Albanese’s progressive government in polls, with an election slated sometime in the coming months.

Experts have pinned the right’s rising popularity, in part, on hard line immigration policies in the US and parts of Europe.

Jeremy Cliffe, of the European Council on Foreign Relations think tank, said three trends were also tied to the boost.

“The globalisation-driven decline of organised labour, rising identity politics harnessed more successfully by the Right than the Left, and a general tendency among Leftist forces to fragment rather than unite,” he said.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission

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