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European Election Results Tonight

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Results tonight or tomorrow morning: Most predictions say that anti-EU voters have more motivation to get out and vote in most European countries, and a lean to the far-right is expected. The UK vote will be interesting, but what will be the point in voting if Britain leaves Europe in October ?

European elections: final votes cast as EU awaits results
France, Germany, Italy and others go to polls on Sunday, with gains expected for nationalist parties

Jon Henley Europe correspondent
Sun 26 May 2019 06.00 BST

The western world’s largest democratic exercise is nearing its finale as tens of millions of EU citizens in 21 countries go to the polls on Sunday, the last of four days of voting in European parliament elections that will shape the bloc’s future.

Polls suggest the vote will produce a more fragmented parliament than ever before, with the two centre-right and centre-left groups that have dominated Europe’s politics forecast to lose their joint majority for the first time, and nationalist and populist forces to make gains.

Both pro- and anti-EU politicians see the elections as a route to controlling Europe’s agenda. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, who is locked in domestic struggle with far-right leader Marine Le Pen, said the vote comes at “the most perilous moment for Europe since the second world war”.

Urging young people to vote in a YouTube broadcast hours before the campaign formally closed, the pro-European centrist – who defeated Le Pen in the second round of France’s 2017 presidential election, but whose popularity has waned amid anti-government protests – insisted on Friday it was “26 May or never!”

With the centre-right EPP and centre-left S&D groups set to shed seats and fall short of a joint majority without the backing of a third – and possibly a fourth – partner in the 751-seat parliament, the influence of the pro-European Liberals (ALDE) and Greens is likely to increase.

But the performance of Europe’s far-right populist parties, who along with an array of conservative nationalists and far-left Eurosceptics are on course to win as many as a third of the parliament’s seats, will be closely watched, even if observers doubt they will be able to form a coherent opposition bloc.
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What to Watch For in the European Parliament Election Results
By Steven Erlanger
May 26, 2019
BRUSSELS — With more than 400 million Europeans across the 28 countries of the European Union entitled to vote in the European Parliament elections that end on Sunday, the poll is, next to India, the largest democratic exercise in the world.

But since these elections began 40 years ago, when the bloc was only 15 countries, turnout to vote for the Parliament — the bloc’s only directly elected branch — has decreased every five years.

So the first thing to watch for is turnout. Will it decline below the 42.6 percent of 2014, or will Europeans respond to calls from both populists and mainstream politicians who suggest that this election is important for the future of Europe?

From early indications, turnout is higher this year than five years ago in key countries like France, Germany, Poland and Spain. It is roughly the same in Italy and marginally higher in Slovakia, where traditionally less than 20 percent of eligible voters bother to vote. In France, turnout is projected to break 50 percent for the first time since 1994.

With much attention on how the continent’s various strands of populists will do, another crucial question is whether the populist surge will produce a counterreaction among voters who support the European Union but are traditionally more apathetic.

Marietje Schaake, a liberal Dutch lawmaker who is not running for re-election, said the vote was “between the builders and the breakers.” The breakers have more passion; will the builders and the pro-Europeans have come out to vote?

Results for all 28 states will be released late Sunday after the last polls close.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/26/worl ... ssues.html
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