4,500 people march through Brussels in protest against right-wing ideology

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It's the second major march in the Belgian capital denouncing the far-right since the EU elections on June 9th which saw right, far-right and populist parties winning big at the polls.

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00:00More than 4,500 people have marched through Brussels in protest against right-wing ideology.

00:09Organized by the Anti-Fascist Coordination of Belgium, the march brought together around

00:1320 social movements and organizations.

00:17It's the second major march in the Belgian capital denouncing the far-right since the

00:21EU elections on June 9th, which saw right and far-right parties winning big.

00:27This march is important today to show a message of hope against the message of despair that

00:32the far-right wants to bring us.

00:33It is important to show that we are in solidarity with everyone, regardless of their nationality,

00:37regardless of what they win, regardless of what they do.

00:39We are in solidarity and we want a society that does not divide us, a society that does

00:43not exclude us, a society that is not racist, that is not sexist.

00:47Arguably the most dramatic win for the right was in France.

00:51Marine Le Pen's national rally took first place in the polls with more than 31% of the

00:56vote, prompting President Emmanuel Macron to dissolve the National Assembly and call

01:01snap elections.

01:03There were also victories for right-leaning and populist parties in Italy, Austria, Hungary

01:08and Bulgaria.

01:12Demonstrators in Brussels were keen to show that the rise of the far-right wasn't inevitable

01:17and that it was important to confront it by building social and democratic alternatives.

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