[pp.int.general] PP populist?

[David Arcos]

Well, in the Spanish mass-media they also spread some FUD (ie, "a party from
the computer crackers", "a party for the illegal downloads", etc).

We (politely) wrote to the Spanish public television (RTVE,
http://www.rtve.es), and we got a nice response excusing themselves.

So just try to show them their mistake :-)


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Reinier Bakels <r.bakels at planet.nl> wrote:

>  My (Dutch) newspaper tonight gives an overview of the results of the
> European elections in all the member states. The Swedish PP is geven the
> label "populist". Is that correct? If not, PP NL may write a letter to the
> newspaper (which is another opportunity to advertise ourselves!)
>
> The Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Populism tells me that
> populism (usually) is a pejorative term which is not appreciated by the
> politicians who are designated as "populist". And it explains that there are
> many definitions of populism. If the definition is: reponding to a specific
> desire of people (instead of following an abstract philosophy like
> "socialism" or "liberalism"), I don't think one can blame populists. But in
> my perception, a true populist manipulates voters by dishonest, demagogic
> propaganda, creating an artificial ennemy for its own benefit. That
> definition does not apply to PP, I guess?????????
>
> Does anyone have a better reason to argue that PP is *not* a populist
> party? (assuming that it is an undesirable negative designation)
>
> reinier
>
>
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