International Courant
Populist, far-right events have acquired file assist on this 12 months’s European Parliament elections, in accordance with preliminary outcomes on Monday.
The far-right group Id and Democracy made huge good points, whereas the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists noticed a slight improve in votes. The middle-right European Individuals’s Get together once more received probably the most seats in parliament, with a barely bigger lead than earlier than. Allied centrist teams – of which the EPP is the most important – would retain a majority in parliament regardless of the rise of the far proper.
The liberal Renew Europe and the Greens/European Free Alliance, in the meantime, each misplaced a major variety of seats.
Right here is the distribution of votes for 2024, in comparison with the earlier parliament:
Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Fee and member of the EPP, stated her get together has as soon as once more proven that it’s the “strongest” in Parliament.
“We had been decided, we had been united, and now we have now received the European elections. The voters have entrusted us with a really robust mandate,” Von der Leyen stated at a press convention shortly after the provisional outcomes had been introduced.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats posted their worst consequence ever on Sunday, falling to 3rd place behind the far-right Different for Germany.
French President Emmanuel Macron known as for a shock parliamentary election after his Renaissance get together suffered a heavy defeat by Marine Le Pen’s far-right Nationwide Rally, a part of ID.
In the meantime, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s right-wing Brothers of Italy, a part of ECR, got here out on prime.
Austria, the Netherlands and Poland additionally noticed vital assist for right-wing and far-right events, indications confirmed.
Sunday’s projections adopted a four-day vote throughout the EU. Greater than 400 million folks within the EU’s 27 member states had been eligible to vote for the subsequent Parliament – one of many three establishments on the coronary heart of the EU.
Simply over half (51%) of eligible voters forged their votes, early estimates instructed – largely in step with 2019 ranges. Voter turnout has been an ongoing sticking level in EU elections, with electoral withdrawal and scorching climate is probably going the rationale voters keep away from the polls.
The European Parliament, which is chargeable for deciding EU laws, is the one managed elected establishment inside the bloc. It consists of Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), who’re elected by every member state and are available collectively to kind European get together teams.
Parliament additionally performs a task within the EU finances, which it should approve and monitor, and elects the President of the European Fee, one of many key positions inside the EU.
The subsequent parliament could have 720 seats, with probably the most populous states chargeable for electing probably the most members of the European Parliament. Germany takes first place with 96, whereas Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta have six every.
— CNBC’s Sophie Kiderlin contributed to this text.
EU elections 2024: European Parliament outcomes
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