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nailed it: « The G7 summit in the southern Italian coastal resort of Borgo Egnazia features arguably the weakest gathering of leaders the group has mustered for years. »
The hostess of this sorry bunch, conservative Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, is the only leader present with an approval rating above 40%. And she’s actually the only leader present who has anything to smile about. Recent elections for the European Parliament show large gains for conservative parties across the continent.
Another reason for the glumness is the aforementioned approval ratings of the rest of the losers. According to the Morning Consult tracker, Biden’s 37% approval positively shines next to « Canadian PM Justin Trudeau (30%), German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (25%), U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (25%), French President Emmanuel Macron (21%) and Japanese PM Fumio Kishida (13%) », according to Axios.
You kind of get the feeling that Western voters don’t like their leaders very much.
Both France’s Emmanuel Macron and Britain’s Rishi Sunak have called for snap elections, where Sunak is expected to be blown away by the Labor Party, and Macron may possibly hang on by his fingernails.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats were blown away in the recent EU parliament elections, finishing third behind the populist AfD party.
