The “destiny of choice” has brought so many Europeans to the ballot boxes like in 20 years, not more. The major parties are shrinking. It is colorful in the European Parliament. Right-wing populists to lay. Bernd Riegert from Brussels.
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Losses for the CDU and the SPD in the European elections
The biggest Surprise in the European elections, the high turnout is. Approximately 51 percent of the 420 million voters in the EU gave their voice. The are eight per cent more than in the last election five years ago. The protests against the climate policies, the end of the strike, students and the defense of Europe, enemy, right-wing populist parties have mobilised the people, apparently, believes politics expert Janis Emmanouilidis from the “European Policy Centre” in Brussels.
The liberal Danish EU Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, says in a DW Interview, the people would have recognized that Select is. “This Power should be used, and the people say that it is something,” said Vestager, who want to be President of the EU Commission. “It is run for parties that want to destroy the EU. It is run parties that call themselves nationalist, but their country to the Russians sell. This has let the people think, you should go this time really choose.” The leading candidate of the European socialists, Frans Timmermans, said that the high turnout was “a great Signal for a functioning democracy”.
Liberal and Green win
Vigorously, the liberals and the Greens in the European Parliament. In Germany, the Green land with a good 20 percent of the vote even before the social Democrats in second place behind the conservative Union. This is the best result achieved by the green party in a nationwide election ever.
The disappointed leader of the social Democrats in the European Parliament, Udo Bullmann, admitted to DW that his party had underestimated the issue of climate policy. Because they wanted to improve. Also, the CDU-Chairman Annegret Kamp-Karrenbauer said in Berlin deficiencies in the environmental topic number one. But she was pleased, however, that the conservative Union, in spite of losses, the strongest party in Germany, and also the strongest group in the European Parliament.
Manfred Weber, the top candidate of the conservative European people’s party (EPP). rose in the evening to claim it, now also the President of the EU Commission. “We have won no great victory, but we are the strongest group,” said the CSU politician in Brussels. He called on the other pro-European parties to cooperate and was directed expressly to the Green. “The Greens are also the winners of the day. Therefore, they are potential partners. We should get together and mandate for the next five years to design.”
Manfred Weber (CSU): His group remains the strongest, is shrinking but. Now he wants the EU Commission chief will be
Christian Democrats remain the strongest group
In the European Parliament, Weber’s EVP has according to preliminary calculations, about 180 seats. This is 42 less than in the past. The social Democrats shrink and end up with 147 Seats. The liberals, including the new party of the French President, Emmanuel Macron on 105 mandates. The Green to grow from 52 to 67 seats. The right-wing populists are in some of the 28 member countries, such as Italy or France is very strong, but remain, overall, slightly below the forecasts. Do you have all together about 150 seats, which are distributed to three different groups. The German nationalists of the AfD is not increased as much as expected, but were able to get in the Federal States of Saxony and Brandenburg, the most votes, and before the Union push.
Right-wing populists to lay
The Brussels EU expert Janis Emmanouilidis points out that the Pro-European parties still hold about 80 percent of the seats. “As a group, the right-populists are, overall, not as strong as some of the urges previously. We always knew that you would not have a majority, but they are perhaps weaker than we thought.” In Italy, the rights Lega interior Minister Matteo Salvini has won the most number of votes. In France, the right wing has beaten politician Marine Le Pen, the party of the French President. “Macron has really tried to throw his own political weight in the weighing pan, to prevent Marine Le Pen with her party front. And he didn’t do it,” says Emmanouilidis.
Janis Emmanouilidis at the European Parliament in Brussels: the election went as expected
In many of the 28 member States, we can observe that the major parties of the center shrink. Liberal, Green and right-wing parties are stronger. The choice of researchers in Brussels, speaking in the night of the election of an increasing fragmentation. “We see that the major parties need to let the springs and that there must be a broad coalition, in order to find a majority,” said Janis Emmanouilidis of the think tank “European Policy Centre”. In the future the European Parliament, the Conservatives and social Democrats as an informal Grand coalition to reach is no longer a majority as in the past. You must unite with the liberals and perhaps the green group.
A majority on the left of the center-Left, social Democrats, Greens and liberals, the computer is not Japanese. A majority of the right of the middle is not out of the question, because the Christian Democrats want to go with nationalists and right-wing populists together. “From now on, it is complicated, because no one gets without a sufficient majority. In the next few days will be so very interesting, who is speaking with whom, in order to get things up and Running,” he said with a view to the fragmentation of the Parliament, the liberal top candidate Vestager in the DW-Interview.
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Exception-election in the UK
Particularly unusual was the European election in the United Kingdom, the EU wants to leave, but the Leaving not in good time before the election, could organize. On Friday, the British Prime Minister Theresa May had therefore announced her resignation. The new “Brexit-Party” of the EU-opponent Nigel Farage has won – as predicted – the election with 31.5 per cent is high. The ruling Conservatives have been severely punished.
In Greece the left-wing populist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras lost against the conservative Opposition. He therefore set up early elections.
In Austria, the people to put a party to the conservative Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz strong, although he must make this Monday a vote of Confidence in the national Parliament in Vienna. The right-wing populists from the freedom party, flew in this week from the coalition government, reached a few percentage points less votes than before the “Ibiza-affair” predicted. In the meanwhile, resigned as FPÖ leader Heinz-Christian Strache was set in 2017, an alleged niece of a Russian oligarch state orders against the election campaign of support in view of what has been captured in a Video rental in Ibiza.
In Germany, the satirist Martin Sonneborn was especially pleased with the success of his “party”. He now has two seats in Strasbourg for sure, but still no program.