Portugal is only behind Croatia in the EU, according to a new report that analyzed trends among young people under 25 years. Economy may be at the base of the phenomenon.
This is the reality of Portugal, which is only behind Croatia in the European Union (EU): for every female young man under 25 who votes in a far-right party, 4.9 male young people do the same.
The numbers are from April from the European Policy Center that show that Portugal presents the second highest value in this parameter in the EU and that the phenomenon can be explained by economy.
These extremist parties are getting more and more effectively “Capitalizing frustration” Associated with loss of employment and financial independence, according to the report.
“O Increased antiphenicism Among young boys is not only a reaction to feminism, but also the result of growing precariousness – especially among workers’ boys who have no college”Says the author of the analysis and political analyst, Javier Carbonell.
Boys under 25 are attracted by the “traditional view of masculinity” advocated by far-right movements, and they seek to contradict a decline “in terms of income, wealth, employment, purchasing power, level of education and mental health”.
According to data from European electoral studies, 17.2% of young men voted for far-right parties in the 2024 European elections, almost double 9.5% registered among women.
If Portugal, Croatia and even Spain show more evidently this pit, Lithuania, Romania, Hungary and Luxembourg have racings less than 1.
The problem also lies in structural transformations that have left many young men behind, the authors point out. The automation, the real estate market crisis, the stagnation of wages and the growing difficulty in achieving social mobility are pointed out as engines of the radicalization of young boys.
In many western countries, younger men are now further away from the labor market than women in the same age group – a historical inversion of labor dynamics.
Na educationthe trend is equally unfavorable to men: in the European Union, 48.8% of women between 25 and 34 years old have a university diploma, compared to only 37.6% of men.
The author thus advocates economic policies that improve young people access to housing, labor stability and better wages and underlines the need to “redefine the idea of masculinity”, cites, with healthier models, inclusive and compatible with gender equality, for example for campaigns that address male mental health, combat gender -based violence and encourage men to embrace the men to embrace violence to embrace Emotional vulnerability.
