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Abstract
The overarching aim of the article is to investigate the discourse of populist sovereignism as articulated by the leaders
and/or leading candidates of four right-wing hard Eurosceptic populist parties in the following countries during the 2019 elections to the
European Parliament: the Czech Republic, Italy, Slovakia and the United Kingdom. The political parties investigated are Freedom and Direct
Democracy, League, People’s Party Our Slovakia and Brexit Party. Using the analytical tools of Critical Discourse Analysis and drawing on
the concept of populist sovereignism, the study investigates how right-wing Eurosceptic populist sovereignism was discursively
(re)constructed by right-wing hard Eurosceptic parties during the 2019 EP elections across the four cases. As such, the inquiry brings fresh
insights as it looks at right-wing populist discourse through the sovereignism perspective, thus complementing the literature on populist
mobilization that focuses on grasping the linkage between populism and sovereignism.
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