In Sweden, the Evil Chickens Party, which defines itself as “a joking party”, has put forward a four-point program advocating more freedom for Internet users and more flexibility in the use of copyrighted digital content.
In Germany, the satirical party Die Partei (“The Party”), founded in 2004 by editors of a German magazine, proposes a “two-state solution” for Germany, as well as setting the price of beer in Europe at three euros per half-liter.
In the last European elections in 2019, The Party elected two MPs.
In the same country there is also the Conventional Medical Rejuvenation Research Party, which claims that “aging will soon be curable”.
But there are also less amusing parties
In Poland, the far-right KORWiN party, named after its leader, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, a former member of the Polish and European parliaments who denies the existence of the Holocaust, sympathizes with Russian expansionism and defends corporal punishment of fathers by their sons and husbands by their wives.
The Pole also advocates paying women lower wages - he says they are less intelligent and shouldn't be allowed to vote until they reach the menopause - and giving the worst jobs to men of short stature.
Voting in France is the “Esperanto common language” list, which calls for the promotion of Esperanto learning and its officialization as the common language of the 27 countries. There is also the “Free Palestine” list and another called “Free France”, which advocates leaving the European Union under the leadership of singer Francis Lalanne, very controversial for his anti-vaccine positions, and comedian Dieudonné, convicted of anti-Semitism and appropriation of company assets.
In Italy, there are several “Frankenstein” lists that bring together up to 19 parties under a single symbol, the only one that can be marked with a cross on the ballot paper.
An example is the “Freedom” list, led by Cateno De Luca and his new party “The South calls the North” and under the slogan “Less Europe, more Italy”, which is identical to the one used in this election campaign by Matteo Salvini's League, and the first point of the program is entitled: “Freedom to profess peace”.
