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Frederiksen's critics see her 'rightwards swing' as a cynical ploy to get into, and then stay in, power.

Others will argue that a rightwards shift by mainstream parties could simply bolster the AfD's arguments.

But ever since the demonstrations started, EU politics on agriculture and climate have shifted rightwards, outraging many of the center right’s old allies with whom it set up the Green Deal.

Only when the court shifted rightwards, following the appointments of conservative justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter and Clarence Thomas, did O'Connor start to break ranks more frequently.

"Swiss politics has shifted rightwards," said Cloe Jans from pollsters GFS Bern.