cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/44390561
Birthed on YouTube during the Covid-19 pandemic spreading conspiracy theories about vaccinations and a cabal of global elites, the party broke into mainstream politics with its “Japanese First” campaign.
Don’t forget that like most racist and anti-immigration parties of the world, they have ties to Russia.
The head of the party of course denied this, as he did in the past when he tried to claim that Russia wasn’t really responsible for the war in Ukraine…