[pp.int.general] PP populist?

[Nicolas Sahlqvist]

They old media calls PP "populist" since it's a new party.


- Nicolas


On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:18 PM, David Arcos<david.arcos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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