Netherlands forecast
EU election: Red-Green narrowly ahead of right-wing populist Wilders
According to initial exit polls, the European elections in the Netherlands are heading towards a neck-and-neck race between the red-green electoral alliance and the radical right-wing party of populist Geert Wilders. According to Thursday evening's forecast, the alliance of the social democratic Party of Labor and the green party GroenLinks will win eight seats, while Wilders' Eurosceptic Party for Freedom (PVV) will win seven.
The final result and the results for the entire EU are not expected until Sunday evening, when the polls close in Austria and the other EU countries. The Netherlands sends 31 MEPs to the EU Parliament, which has a total of 720 seats.
Wilders won parliamentary election in November
Polls had previously suggested that the Wilders party would win a European election for the first time. Five years ago, it entered the European Parliament with just one MEP. The far-right leader and his anti-Islam party surprisingly won the national parliamentary elections in November and will now govern with three other right-wing parties.
If the final result confirms the green-left alliance as the strongest force, this would be a success for former EU Commissioner Frans Timmermans, who has been responsible for the EU's "Green Deal" climate protection package since 2019.
Social Democrat Timmermans resigned from his position as Commission Vice-President and EU Climate Action Commissioner at the end of August to run as the lead candidate for an electoral alliance of Social Democrats and Greens in the early parliamentary elections in the Netherlands. However, his pro-European alliance then performed disappointingly, although it was briefly ahead in opinion polls.
EU elections: The Netherlands led the way
Around 360 million Europeans have until Sunday to vote for the 720 members of the European Parliament. The Dutch were the first to cast their vote. The other 26 EU member states will follow in the coming days. The majority will vote on Sunday, including Austria. Results will only be published when all polling stations have closed. This is the case on Sunday evening.
This article has been automatically translated,
read the original article here.
Kommentare
Willkommen in unserer Community! Eingehende Beiträge werden geprüft und anschließend veröffentlicht. Bitte achten Sie auf Einhaltung unserer Netiquette und AGB. Für ausführliche Diskussionen steht Ihnen ebenso das krone.at-Forum zur Verfügung. Hier können Sie das Community-Team via unserer Melde- und Abhilfestelle kontaktieren.
User-Beiträge geben nicht notwendigerweise die Meinung des Betreibers/der Redaktion bzw. von Krone Multimedia (KMM) wieder. In diesem Sinne distanziert sich die Redaktion/der Betreiber von den Inhalten in diesem Diskussionsforum. KMM behält sich insbesondere vor, gegen geltendes Recht verstoßende, den guten Sitten oder der Netiquette widersprechende bzw. dem Ansehen von KMM zuwiderlaufende Beiträge zu löschen, diesbezüglichen Schadenersatz gegenüber dem betreffenden User geltend zu machen, die Nutzer-Daten zu Zwecken der Rechtsverfolgung zu verwenden und strafrechtlich relevante Beiträge zur Anzeige zu bringen (siehe auch AGB). Hier können Sie das Community-Team via unserer Melde- und Abhilfestelle kontaktieren.