@sarabee1995 Nope, actually I think using red for the conservative option is something uniquely American (idk if it's a residual of the platform switching happened in the 1860s? Or maybe just a different convention?)
Here red was originally taken by communists, now various shades of red are taken up by left of center parties (not all of them, e.g. the greens use green), whereas conservative ones tend to use different shades of blue. Mussolini originally was black, but neo-fascists are typically in denial of their position (like, they'll rally at Predappio to do the Roman salute at Mussolini's grave, but don't you dare to call them fascists 🤦🏻♂😅) and consequently their parties don't want to be represented in black (they're either a darker blue or at most brown)
Example:
(CDX stands for "centro-destra", which is the current right-wing coalition; CSX for "centro-sinistra" which stands for centre-left and is red)
At the European level it works more or less the same:
That said, people here typically recognize parties by the symbol more than the color. As those are the symbols that appear on the ballots too:
