BREAKING: Exit poll shows German governing parties lose ground in EU election, big gains for Greens, small gains for far-right.
The Greens are celebrating projected strong gains in Germany in the European Parliament elections and a good showing in Ireland.
The poll by Alpha Research and Gallup International says GERB is projected to win 30% to 33% of the vote, compared to 23% to 25% for the opposition Socialist party. Weber said the EPP will be “hopefully the strongest group” in the new European parliament. He said “we promised stability, and will guarantee this stability in the coming years.”Spain’s Interior Ministry says turnout for the European elections at 6 p.m. is up to 49.3% from nearly 34.1% in 2014.
New Democracy is projected to win 32% to 36% of the vote, compared to 25% to 29% for the ruling left-wing Syriza. The ARD television exit poll put support for Chancellor Angela Merkel’s center-right Union bloc at 28% and showed their coalition partners in Berlin, the center-left Social Democrats, dropping to a dismal 15.5%. Five years ago, those parties took 35.4% and 27.3% respectively of the vote.
The projection was released after polls closed Sunday in Austria. It put support for Kurz’s center-right People’s Party at 34.5%, with the center-left Social Democrats at 23.5%, the Freedom Party at 17.5% and the Greens at 13.5% support.The vote for the joint European Parliament is a the first test in Austria ahead of a national election in September that Kurz called a week ago after a scandal erupted surrounding the Freedom Party’s leader.
He told reporters “I’m interested in winning in Italy to change Europe,” according to the Italian news agency ANSA.Turnout appears to be up in several of the European Union’s largest countries for the continentwide battle for influence at the European Parliament.In Spain, turnout was up to 35% compared to 24% at the same time in the last European elections in 2014.
Vox erupted into the Spanish political scene in December when it won its first seats in the regional legislature for the Andalusia region. It then won 10% of the vote in national elections on April 28 to enter the Spanish Parliament.Unlike other European far-right parties, Vox is not anti-European Union despite its ultranationalist ideology.
Former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont and his ex-No. 2 Oriol Junqueras are both running on competing tickets of separatist parties for the European Parliament. “I think a lot is at stake for Catalonia in the European elections,” Manuel Guajardo, a 57-year-old businessman, said after voting in Barcelona. “It will be the definition of a people, to take a path or another path, and these elections will mark this.”
“We don’t want them all here,” he said. “Europe is united so why can’t they be divided among other countries too?” Migrants are on the mind of Silvia Bonomo, too, but she feels Europe needs to “open itself up” and do more to welcome people fleeing war and hardships. The 62-year-old middle-school teacher voted for the center-left Democratic Party.
Manfred Weber, whose European People’s Party group hopes to retain its status as the biggest in the European Parliament, said after voting in his native Bavaria Sunday: “I don’t want to see a right-populist Europe wants to destroy the idea of togetherness ... and I’m also against a Europe which is in the hands of the left.”
Regardless of the result, Kurz faces a no-confidence vote brought by the opposition in parliament Monday. He said he expects the Freedom Party and the Social Democrats to back it, which would bring him down.Spanish caretaker Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez says that he hopes the outcome of Sunday’s European and local elections will lead to more “political stability” for Spain as he starts his attempt to form a government.
Sánchez’s Socialists won April 28 national elections in Spain, but fell short of winning an outright majority and will need to earn the support from rivals in Parliament to stay in power.Hungary’s prime minister says he hopes the European Parliament election will bring a shift toward political parties that want to stop migration.
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