EP election

European Parliament elections are in (preliminary results)

• high turnout (~50%).
• slight gains for euroskeptics, but not high enough for them to have a blocking minority
• center-left displaced by greens etc.
• previous center coalition, EPP (christian dem. etc) + PASD (soc.dem), no longer a  majority, so will have to expand coalition, perhaps with lib. dem’s (ALDE) or Greens.
• Greens (G/EFA in the EP) looking alive

National highlights (biggest countries, parties >10%)

• Germany: (1) CDU/CSU (2) Green (3) SPD (4) AFD
• France: (1) RN [Le Pen] (2) Macron coalition (3) green (4) republican [conservative] (<10%)
• UK (1) Brexit party (2) LibDem (3) Labour (4) Green (5) Tory (<10%)
  • Nigel Farage capitalizes on Brexit debacle
  • Corbyn, far too late now, just announced his intention to push for second referendum.
  • May beat the rush, resigned on Friday.
• Italy: (1) Lega [populist] (2) PD [soc.dem] (3) M5S [populist]
• Spain: (1) PSOE [soc.dem] (2) PP [chris.dem] (3) Ciudadanos [Catalan unionist?]
• Poland : (1) PIS [right-populist] (2) European Coalition [opposition catch-all]
• Romania: (1) conservative-liberal (2) soc.dem (3) USR-PLUS [centrist/??]
• Netherlands: (1) labor (2) conservative-liberal (3) chris.dem (4) euroskeptic/right-populist (5) green
• Greece: (1) conservative-liberal (2) SYRIZA [quasi-left]
• Belgium: (1) conservative (2) right-populist (3) soc.dem
• Czech: (1) centrist-populist (2) liberal-conservative (3) pirate (4) [???]
• Hungary: (1) FIDESZ [right-populist] (2) Democratic Coalition [liberal] (3) Momentum [centrist]
• Sweden: (1) soc.dem (2) liberal-conservative (3) swed.dem [right-populist] (4) green (5) liberal
• Austria: (1) chris.dem (2) socd.em (3) right-populist (4) green

 

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