International Courant
OVIEDO, Spain
Spain’s two centrist events dominated the EU elections, with the conservative Standard Celebration (PP) securing a slight lead over the Socialist Celebration throughout Sunday’s vote.
Of the 61 seats accessible to Spain, the PP gained 22 and the Socialist Celebration gained 20. In 2019, the nation’s two dominant events held simply 34 seats mixed.
The outcomes of center-right and center-left events imply that Spain could have among the many largest representations within the EU’s two largest political teams — the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) and the European Individuals’s Celebration (EPP).
On the identical time, Spain noticed a few of Europe’s different bigger political developments enjoying out on a nationwide stage, just like the collapse of the liberals and rising assist for the far-right.
Spain, in the meantime, noticed its liberal get together Cuidadanos fall utterly off the map. It is a reflection of the bigger European liberal political group Renew Europe rising as the most important loser of the vote.
The liberal get together’s seven seats had been absorbed primarily by the center-right Standard Celebration, but in addition by emergent alt-right events.
The far-right get together Vox got here in third place and gained almost 10% of the vote and 6 seats — two greater than within the 2019 elections.
On the identical time, a brand new alt-right get together broke onto the scene. Known as The Celebration Is Over, it’s fashioned across the standard anti-establishment social media determine Alvise Perez, who has confronted a number of authorized disputes round publishing misinformation.
The Celebration Is Over gained almost 5% of the favored vote and three seats — its first political illustration ever.
And whereas the Greens–European Free Alliance misplaced a major variety of seats on the EU stage, their assist elevated barely between the 2 far-left events Podemos and Sumar in Spain.
Collectively, each events acquired 5 seats and almost 8% of the favored vote, up one seat from 2019.
Ahora Republicas, a Spanish coalition of left-wing regionalist teams, additionally gained one seat, shifting from two to a few within the European Parliament.
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