Why is the far right gaining popularity among young people?

The European Parliament is leaning further to the right and, if the results are to be believed, so are the new generations of European voters.

Both the far-right Identity and Democracy (ID) group and the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) are set to wield greater influence over the next five years in the European parliament after respectively adding nine and seven seats to their tallies following the European electionsheld earlier this month.

Data from the think tank ThinkYouth suggest young people played in big role in that. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) secured a big share of the young people's vote, meanwhile about a third of young people voted for the far-right National Rally (RN) in France and the Confederation of Freedom and Independence party in Poland where the ultra-conservative Law and Justice party also secured 16% of this key demographic. 

Getting "rid of technocrats", returning to a "Europe of nations", clamping down on immigration and weakening "ineffective and corrupt" traditional parties are some of the arguments brought forward by young people who gave their vote to far-right or ultra-nationalist parties.

Now Enzo Alias,  a young National Rally supporter, is hoping Marine Le Pen's party will "make history" in the upcoming snap legislative elections in France, and "impose itself as the first political force in France".

French President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the national assembly and called these elections after his centrist Renaissance party took a drubbing in the European elections, coming a very distant second to RN which secured over 31% of the vote. 

For Alias, who's also the president of the Patriots Network youth organisation whose members are tied to far-right or right-wing