European Election LIVE Thread

[Warlord]

Welcome to the European Union election live thread.

Polls close across Europe at 10pm BST (5pm EST) when counting will begin. This thread is to track any news relating to the election.

Please post any news or tweets in this thread.

[Warlord]

Populists set for big win across EU as millions head to the polls

https://news.sky.com/story/eu-electi...sults-11728656

[Warlord]

There is only one man, since liberal leader David Lloyd-George’s coalition came to power in 1918, to have won a UK-wide election while not sporting a Conservative or Labour rosette: Nigel Farage.

It is a feat the Brexit party leader is likely to claim on Sunday evening when Britain’s European election returns are counted. Many will tell you this is just a repeat performance of 2014 when Farage’s Ukip topped the UK’s European parliament poll . Don’t listen: it is not and should not be treated as such.

Leave aside the fact that Farage winning an election with a party that did not exist only months ago would be spectacular; set aside, too, the fact that he has been able to leave his old party, Ukip, a force decades in the making, barely twitching in the road. For his victory in 2019 means something different from his 2014 triumph: the scope is bigger, the ramifications probably deeper and the horse he is now riding stronger and running in a very different race.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics...cracy-us-model

[goldenequity]

LIVE




Euro Mental Colonic Broadcast

[Warlord]

3 hours till polls close...

Good to see you around GE!

[Zippyjuan]

Based on exit polls, Greens gain in Ireland and Germany. Populists down in Austria and Nederlands. Le Pen's party edged Macron's but Macron's supporting parties are still in control.

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news...ntl/index.html

French President Emmanuel Macron finished second to the far-right populist candidate Marine Le Pen, but he needn't spend too much time licking his wounds. Macron's pact with the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) is currently projected to take 102 seats in the parliament. Based on the rest of the seat projections, this could make the group kingmaker for the next five years.

About half the people in the EU eligible to vote did so in the election.

The Greens have been predicted to have picked up 19 seats, while the Euroskeptic political group Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy (EFDD) -- which comprises of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage -- has gained 14 seats.

There are 751 seats in the European Parliament.

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.politico.eu/article/ange...election-2019/

Merkel’s alliance first in EU election, Greens make big gains

Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative alliance finished first in Germany in the European Parliament election on Sunday, while the Greens and the far-right Alternative for Germany made strong gains to finish second and fourth, according to first projections.

Merkel's Christian Democratic Union, and its Bavarian partner, the Christian Social Union, finished with about 28 percent, according to the projections, followed by the Greens with around 22 percent.

The poll numbers showed a tough third-place finish for the Social Democrats (SPD) with around 15.5 percent, a brutal decline of more than 11 percentage points compared to five years ago.

More at links.

[goldenequity]

LIVE: UK‘s South East Region results
Farage expected to attend

[Warlord]

Sky News LIVE:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrX6ktLg8WQ

[Warlord]

First results in half an hour according to Sky News

[Warlord]

UK North east. Brexit Party picks up its first 2 Members

• The Brexit PartyTotal:Change+/-:
  MEPs:Total2+/-:+ 2
  Vote share:Total31.5%+/-:+ 31.5
  Votes:Total1,109,805
  
  LabourTotal:Change+/-:
  MEPs:Total1+/-:− 1
  Vote share:Total16.6%+/-:− 12.9
  Votes:Total585,714
  
  
  

[nobody's_hero]

[Warlord]

There are now some clear signs that Labour will come third in Wales behind not only the Brexit Party but also Plaid Cymru.

This will be easily its worst ever result in the country.

[Warlord]

UK North East Result:

Here is a result that summarises the story of the night:

At 39% the Brexit vote is 10 points up on what UKIP achieved in 2017 in what was a strongly Leave area in 2016.

Meanwhile, there is as much as a 13.5% swing from Labour to Lib Dems, easily enough to put the Lib Dems into second place nationally.

The Conservative vote is down 11 points, much as the polls were expecting.

And the Greens are enjoying a modest increase of 3 points.

This is an election at which the parties of no deal and second referendum have clearly been much more attractive to voters.

[nobody's_hero]

[Warlord]

hi nobody. I'm watching Sky News Live. See my post further up for link...

[Warlord]

UK London Results

3 seats for the Libdems
Labour and Brexit Party 2 seats
Greens 1

No seats for the conservatives. they've been wiped out!

[nobody's_hero]

hi nobody. I'm watching Sky News Live. See my post further up for link...

unfortunately I have to leave for work. Looks like I'll be getting results from my smart phone during breaks tonight. Truly exciting stuff though.

[Warlord]

Wales Results

Brexit Party 2 seats
Labour 1 seat
Plaid 1 seat


Conservatives wiped out in Wales.

[goldenequity]

Andrew Neil
@afneil
5m5 minutes ago

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras calls snap general election after losing European Election to opposition New Democracy, centre right.


So a shameful chapter in Greece almost certainly comes to an end. Traitor Tsipras the one who vowed to stand up to the EU (who wanted to make the Greeks debt slaves and suffer austerity)
In the end he turned out to be best EU stooge the EU and banksters could have ever dreamed of... Not to mention the "North Macedonia" debacle....
humiliating patriotic Greeks all for the sake of adhering to the globalist dictats sent down from Brussels bureaucrats.

eyuup.

[Warlord]

Brexit Party leads UK

In Britain, with 100 of 373 counts complete, the brand new Brexit Party is in the lead with 31.9%.

But it seems to have been a difficult election for the two largest parties, the Conservatives and Labour, who are down 12-14% each so far.

It's also been a good night for the pro-EU Liberal Democrats, which got just 6% of the vote in 2014 - and so far is on 12.5%.

[Warlord]

Brexit Party tops the polls in the South East. Farage relected with 4 others

[Swordsmyth]

In what may be the biggest shock from today's European parliamentary elections, President Emmanuel Macron is set to suffer a blow with French voters set to hand a victory to Marine Le Pen’s National Rally, picking the vocal Eurosceptic and nationalist over the former Rothschild banker.

Macron’s En Marche (Republic on The Move) will have just 22.5% of the vote compared with 24% for Le Pen, according to pollsters Ifop. With Macron and Le Pen neck and neck ahead of the elections, the outcome will be a humiliation for the liberal politician who said before the elections that everything less than 1st place would be a defeat.
Rounding out the The Greens were third with 13%, the conservative Republicans got 8%, while the implosion of the Socialists continues, coming in dead last with just 6.5% of the vote.

Macron's default took place even as turnout was up around 10% points from 2014, however the increase was particularly marked in regions where Le Pen’s party has gained ground in the past years. In other words, as establishment apathy gets entrenched, the populist vote is increasingly demanding to be heard.
It gets worse: to the shock of globalists and statists everywhere, this is Le Pen’s second straight victory in the EU vote. In 2014 she beat the conservatives by 4 percentage points with Macron’s Socialist predecessor Francois Hollande trailing in third.
As Bloomberg notes, the result is a setback for the 41-year-old Macron who played a more prominent role in the campaign than any other European leader as he sought to mobilize voters.


Meanwhile, Eurosceptic, anti-establishment and hard-right parties were also expected to top polls in the UK, Italy, Poland, and Hungary. Nigel Farage’s Brexit party was in contention to be the biggest single national party in the parliament, potentially beating both Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and Matteo Salvini’s rightwing League.
Germany’s left-right grand coalition faced a potentially significant electoral shock, with estimates indicating the Green party had made a historic breakthrough, taking 20.9 per cent of the vote. Philippe Lamberts, leader of the Green group, said: “To make a stable majority in this parliament the Greens are now indispensable.”
This pushed the centre-left Social Democratic party into third place for the first time in nationwide elections, raising pressure on party leaders to rethink their federal alliance with the centre-right CDU and the CSU, its Bavarian sister party.
While the EPP remains the biggest group in the parliament, its diminished size may hamper Manfred Weber, its lead candidate, in making a claim to the presidency of the European Commission.

EPP parties were in first place in Germany, but Merkel’s CDU secured 28%, seven points down on its vote share in 2014. Finally, Austria’s Sebastian Kurz said he was “speechless” after a crushing victory, securing a third of all votes in spite of a corruption scandal that has brought down his coalition government with the far-right Freedom party.

More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-...-defeat-le-pen

[Swordsmyth]

Hungary's ruling right-wing Fidesz party won 52.14% of votes in the European parliamentary election on Sunday on a hardline anti-immigration platform, scoring a big victory over a divided opposition.Prime Minister Viktor Orban told supporters of his Fidesz party that he would cooperate with everyone in Europe who wanted to halt immigration.
"The election victory means that ... Hungarians gave us the task of ... stopping immigration all across Europe," Orban told cheering fans in Budapest.
Hungarians wanted Fidesz to "protect Christian culture in Europe" he said.
Fidesz came in well ahead of the leftist Democratic Coalition, which was second with 16.26%, according to the national election office. The Momentum party was third with 9.92%. The Socialists won 6.68%, while the nationalist Jobbik got 6.44% of votes, both weakening significantly.


More at: https://news.yahoo.com/hungarys-orba...074243118.html

[enhanced_deficit]

Populists set for big win across EU as millions head to the polls

https://news.sky.com/story/eu-electi...sults-11728656

Seems that way:

Major EU upset: 'Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party set to win most UK seats in EU vote

[Swordsmyth]

Parties committed to strengthening the European Union held on to two-thirds of seats in the EU parliament, official projections from the bloc's elections showed on Sunday, though far-right and nationalist opponents saw strong gains.France's Emmanuel Macron, who has staked his presidency on persuading Europeans that the EU is the answer to the challenges of an uncertain, globalising world economy, took a personal hit when his centrist movement was edged into second place by Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration, anti-Brussels National Rally.
But Macron's Renaissance, built on the ruins of centre-left and centre-right parties, added to gains for liberals at the EU level as turnout bounced sharply across the bloc. Along with a surge for the Greens, that meant four groups occupying the pro-EU middle ground lost under 20 seats, securing 505 seats out of 751, according to a projection by the European Parliament.
That may complicate some policymaking, as a two-party "grand coalition" of the conservative European People's Party (EPP) and the Socialists (S&D) no longer has a majority. The liberals, with over 100 seats and Greens, with nearly 70, want a big say.
But it also dents the hopes of Le Pen, Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini and others who have been seeking to disrupt attempts to forge closer EU integration. Salvini called the elections a mandate for a shake-up in Brussels.
But tensions among nationalists, who also include the Polish and Hungarian ruling parties and the new Brexit Party of British campaigner Nigel Farage, have limited their impact on policy.


More at: https://news.yahoo.com/europeans-vot...145923501.html


The EU will break apart soon.

[Swordsmyth]

Matteo Salvini's anti-migrant League party won the most votes in Sunday's European elections in Italy, marking a historic success for the far-right, exit polls showed."A new Europe is born. I am proud that the League is participating in this new European renaissance," Salvini said in Milan after exit polls predicted his party had won 27-31 percent of votes.
The result will strengthen Interior Minister Salvini's grip on government, after coalition partner the Five Star Movement (M5S) was beaten by a resurgent centre-left Democratic Party (PD) which came second with 21-25 percent.
"I ask for an acceleration on the government programme," Salvini said, brandishing Roman Catholic rosary beads. "At the national level nothing changes."
Salvini earlier tweeted a photo of himself grinning and holding a sign saying "top party in Italy" while standing in front of a bookshelf featuring, among other things, a religious icon and a Make America Great Again baseball cap.
Luigi Di Maio's anti-establishment M5S garnered 18.5-22.5 percent of votes, while tycoon and former premier Silvio Berlusconi's Forza Italia scored 8-12 percent.


Some analysts predicted that Salvini would want to call snap elections if the League obtained a high score, although he denied this during campaigning.
"As far as I'm concerned, if the League wins nothing changes in Italy, everything will change in Europe, starting from tomorrow," he said earlier Sunday.
The March 2018 general election in the eurozone's third largest economy saw the League take home just 17 percent of the vote, while the M5S -- which set itself up as the honest, environmentally-friendly alternative to a corrupt old political guard -- pocketed over 32 percent.
Analysts said a strong League result -- over 30 percent -- could see Salvini tempted to ditch the M5S for the far-right Brothers of Italy (which won five-seven percent on Sunday), or a fresh alliance with the party's historic partner, the centre-right Forza Italia.
Berlusconi, 82, has repeatedly called on Salvini to dump his partner M5S and try to form a government with Forza Italia.

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/far-league-wi...234208821.html

[Pauls' Revere]

Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez was the big winner of European elections on Sunday with his ruling Socialists coming first, a result he will likely use to wield more influence in the EU.

With more than 95 percent of votes counted, government spokeswoman Isabel Celaa announced the Socialist Party had come first with close to 33 percent, followed by the conservative Popular Party which won just over 20 percent.

The PSOE won 20 seats, six seats more than in the 2014 European election, and a share equivalent to more than 4 percentage points above last month’s Spanish general election.

In another devastating blow for the Popular Party, still reeling from disastrous results in the April 28th vote, the conservatives came in second place with 20.09 percent of the vote and 12 seats, four down from 2014.

The conservative vote was split by Ciudadanos who won seven votes and the new far-right Vox party, which enters the EU parliament for the first time, with three seats.

The far-left Podemos will be disappointed with just six seats, only one more than in the last election.

https://www.thelocal.es/20190526/exi...win-in-eu-vote

[r3volution 3.0]

The socialists lost (good), the conservatives lost (blah), the liberals gained (good), the nationalists gained (bad).

The ultimate coalition government will almost certainly exclude the nationalists (good).

It's a mixed bag, but I'm happy to see the liberals make gains, and the nationalists out in the cold.

[Swordsmyth]

Liberal, pro-European coalition Progressive Slovakia/Together won the EU election in Slovakia with 20.1 % of the vote, followed by the ruling leftist Smer party at 15.7 %, official results showed on Sunday.The non-parliamentary coalition was set up two years ago and has already beaten Smer in presidential election in March this year when its candidate, lawyer Zuzana Caputova, defeated EU Commissioner Maros Sefcovic.
The far-right People's Party-Our Slovakia was third in the EU vote with 12.1 %, according to complete results released by the Statistics Office.

https://news.yahoo.com/liberal-coali...212605425.html