Voters across the Atlantic sent a message to the political establishment on Sunday night, shifting the European Parliament to the right and shaming a party whose policies have fundamentally changed the continent with unchecked immigration, failed assimilation, costly climate anxiety and globalist tendencies.
The outcome of the election will have repercussions for weeks and months to come. One prime minister has already resigned and other leaders face the threat of being ousted in their own countries.
Italy
As of Monday morning, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s conservative national party, Brothers of Italy, had won 14 seats and about 29 percent of the vote. Reuters
Shown The party’s victory on Sunday was more than four times the vote share it received in the 2019 European Union elections and surpassed the 26% it received in the 2022 referendum.
“I am proud that Italy appears in the G7 and in Europe with the strongest government. This has never happened before but it is happening today. It is a satisfaction but also a great responsibility,” Meloni said.
“What we need is a Europe that listens to its citizens, leans to the centre-right and has more pragmatic, less ideological policies,” she added.
The victory makes Meloni one of the most influential figures in the EU.
Meloni’s Italian Brothers party is part of a coalition government in parliament.
Conservatives and Reformists in EuropeThe Cyprus Popular Front currently holds 73 seats in the 720-seat parliament. The ECR is expected to be backed by the Cyprus National Popular Front. Secured In Sunday’s vote, 11% of the vote was centered on a message of tackling immigration.
As well as the ECR’s gains on Sunday, the right-wing Identity Democracy coalition also gained nine seats, bringing its total to 58. The ID’s gains were largely driven by the success of the French National Rally.
France
Marine Le Pen’s National Rally party more than doubled its share of the vote to 31.37 percent, beating French President Emmanuel Macron’s pro-European Renaissance party. Macron’s “Europe Needs” coalition, which includes the party, received just 14.6 percent of the vote.
The results were so embarrassing that President Macron, who already lacks a majority in the French Parliament, called early elections for June 30 and July 7 and called for the dissolution of the National Assembly within weeks.
After the French people completely ousted his party, Macron
Tweeted“I believe that the French people have the capacity to make the fairest choice for themselves and for future generations.”
Axios
Highlighting After his humiliation, Macron resorted to old-fashioned intimidation tactics.
“The rise of nationalists and demagogues is a danger to our country and to Europe,” the president said. “From this day forward, we cannot act as if nothing happened.”
“The French people have sent a very clear message to the Macron government: its government is crumbling with every vote,” Le Pen said.
I got it. As for X, he suggests it is the result of denying a people’s history and suppressing their “influence, identity and freedom.”
After President Macron announced the dissolution of the National Assembly, Le Pen
Said“I call on the French to come and form a majority around the RN. [National Rally] Only one cause guides our steps: France.”
Macron’s government is not the only one reeling after Sunday’s election.
Germany
Despite criticism from the liberal media and German political establishment, and the stabbing death of one of its members before the election, the Alternative for Germany won six seats and came in second with 15.9% of the national vote, while the center-right Christian Democratic Union and Christian Social Union held on to the top spot with 30.2% of the vote.
The Alternative for Germany managed to beat German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats, who are expected to come third with just under 14% of the vote, in addition to improving by 5% on its share of the vote in the 2019 European Parliament elections.
according to According to the German newspaper Bild, 76% of Germans believe the SPD-led government is not governing well. 570,000 voters who voted for the SPD in 2019 turned out to vote for the AFD on Sunday.
Social Democratic politician Lars Klingbeil doubled down on his party’s ineffectual rhetoric after the crushing defeat.
state“I believe the results of the European elections will wake up many people to the fact that these elections have made the Nazis stronger.”
Telegraph
Shown Less than a third of German voters voted for the ruling party. Humiliations alongside Scholz’s party included the Greens, which lost around 9% of the vote, and Scholz’s coalition partner, the Free and Open Party, which only managed to get 5% of the vote.
Immigration and refugees were by far the biggest concern for Germans going to the polls, ahead of energy, climate, the economy, pensions and the war in Ukraine.
Some have said the government has lost its legitimacy due to the failure of Scholz’s ruling coalition.
AFD (Australian Federal Development Department)
Reportedly The European Parliament is seeking to join an ID coalition government at the expense of scandal-plagued candidate Maximilian Kula, which would give the ID and ECR together more than 131 seats for the right in the European Parliament, not including those held by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party, the Polish League and other right-wing groups.
others
In Spain, the center-right Popular Party overtook the left-wing Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, led by Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez. The People’s Party won nine seats with 34.2% of the vote, giving it 22 of Spain’s 61 seats in the European Parliament. Sánchez’s Radical Party lost one seat and now has only 20.
The right-wing Vox party won two more seats on Sunday, giving it 9.6 percent of the vote and putting it in third place with six seats.
Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ Party for Freedom won six seats and 17.7% of the national vote, placing him second in the Netherlands. The Party for Freedom campaigned mainly on two issues: immigration and healthcare.
report NL Times.
“The Greens and the Liberals are the big losers. They will lose many seats in the European Parliament,” Wilders said.
Tweeted Sunday. “Meanwhile, the PVV has won big, just like our friends in France, Belgium, Austria, Portugal and many other countries. What a great election day!”
In Austria, the Freedom Party, which is part of the ID coalition government, came in first with 25.7% of the vote and won three seats for a total of six.
according to According to Euronews, the Freedom Party campaigned on a primarily anti-immigration, anti-Green Deal and eurosceptic platform.
Ahead of the vote, the Liberal Party I have written “The refugee crisis, the corona chaos, the warmongering and eco-communism – are you tired of all this? Then definitely vote for the FPÖ today! Together we will stop the EU madness!” X wrote.
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crybaby Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo announced his resignation on Sunday after his Flemish Democratic Party for Liberal Democrats suffered a major defeat at the hands of right-wing and nationalist parties. De Croo’s party lost all its seats, leaving it last in parliament with just one seat.
“Tonight is a particularly difficult night for us. We have lost. As of tomorrow I will be stepping down as prime minister,” Mr Clough said.
report Guardian.
The nationalist right-wing New Flemish Union came in first place, with its leader, Bart de Wever, likely to become the next prime minister. The anti-immigration Flemish Verans party came in second.
Attempts to stoke fears failed
Ursula von der Leyen, a member of the centrist European People’s Party, the largest coalition in the new parliament, has vowed to act as a check on the rising right.
report Reuters.
“We are building a bulwark against both extremes, left and right,” von der Leyen said, “but it is also true that both extremes, left and right, are gaining support, which is why this result places a great responsibility on the centre parties.”
Von der Leyen’s continued role as European Commission president will depend on the support of EU leaders.
A few days before the election, the BBC
Warned A shift to the right could mean “more power for nation-states and less ‘interference from Brussels’ in daily life,” less power for the European Commission, tougher EU laws on immigration, and a backlash against climate-alert policies.
As the results were announced, The Washington Post
The alarm was sounded “The ‘line of defense’ that mainstream political parties had erected against forces perceived to be the heirs of European fascist movements has collapsed,” and a “new era of right-wing politics” has arrived in the Western world.
The New York Times
I got it. “Right-wing parties have thrived across the continent as voters become more focused on nationalism and identity, often combining with immigration and the culture war politics around gender and LGBTQ issues that have gained momentum in the United States,” he said, warning that the results “could embolden political forces loyal to former President Donald J. Trump as he seeks a return to the presidency.”
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