PNN – In an article referring to the end of the European Parliament elections last night and reporting the first results, “Politico” magazine has introduced the list of winners and losers of this competition.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from the American Publication Politico, after the end of the European Parliament elections, the extreme right had a good night, but the situation was not the same for other parties.
After the end of this voting, while the right wing gained more power, the greens and liberals had a difficult night; So much so that French President Emmanuel Macron immediately dissolved the national parliament to hold new elections in this country.
Who are the winners of the European Parliament elections?
Ursula von der Leyen
The European Commission president emerged from Sunday’s vote with a possible coalition of Socialists, Liberals and the centre-right European People’s Party (EPP), with the three parties expected to hold nearly 407 votes in parliament. Although he needs only 361 votes in the parliament to be able to win the second term of the presidency of this institution, the number of votes obtained so far does not mean victory and von der Leyen still needs the support of the national leaders of the European Union in the European Council.
However, the “People of Europe” party is in a good position to lead him to victory.
In the meantime, Manfred Weber, the leader of the European People’s Party, has asked German Chancellor Olaf Schultz and Macron to support von der Leyen for another five years. This party has won in Germany, Spain, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Croatia and Greece and has won 6 seats in the Netherlands, thus performing better than expected.
Georgia Meloney
The leader of the right wing of Italy also emerged victorious in this election and far ahead of his rivals. The issue that makes him go home with victory along with Donald Tusk from Poland as one of the few leaders of a large EU member state.
Extreme right
The victory of Marine Le Pen from the extreme right wing in the French National Assembly party was the big story last night after the party’s strong performance; The incident that caused Macron to decide to dissolve the parliament and hold new elections.
Far-right parties in Austria and the Netherlands also won the first place and in Germany and Romania they reached the second place. French Eric Zemor, who is known as a far-right politician, also entered the parliament.
Socialists
In the meantime, the European center-left parties did not win a stunning victory, but they maintained their position in the parliament and ranked second in large countries such as Spain and Italy, and third in France. But in Germany, Schultz’s socialists came third after the far-right party “Alternative for Germany”.
Peter Mayer
Mayar, as a rival of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and the undisputed face of the opposition in this country, won nearly 30% of the votes.
Roberta Metsola
As the President of the European Parliament from Malta, Metsula has won only one additional seat for his party by winning more than 87 thousand votes. However, Maltese media reported that since the country’s accession to the European Union, Metsula had the most votes for membership in the European Parliament.
Who are the losers?
Emmanuel Macron
Politico introduced the President of France as the first loser of last night’s European Parliament elections and wrote: “Renaissance” party barely managed to surpass the Socialists and stand in second place in this election.
Valerie Haier heads to Brussels as the main candidate of the Renaissance party after being repeatedly dissuaded by her allies, including French Prime Minister Gabriel Ethel.
Olaf Schultz
The Social Democrats of the German chancellor party lost the result in the fight against the center-right party “Christian Democrats” and the far-right “Alternative for Germany”.
According to the reports, this party got only 14% of the votes, which is the worst result of a national election in more than a century. Therefore, it seems that he, like Macron, will order early elections.
The greens
After the strong performance of this party in 2019, the Greens won in Germany, and last night this party went from 21 seats to less than 12 seats, and in France, it could hardly keep its seats, but in Portugal, it lost all its seats.
Viktor Orban
Hungary’s nationalist leader fared worse than expected after facing a strong challenge from Mayar. The Fidesz party led by Orban received 43.8% of the votes, which was the worst result of this party in the history of the European Parliament elections.
Matteo Salvini
The Italian Deputy Prime Minister’s League party, which won 34% of the vote in 2019 and currently heads the far-right group Identity and Democracy, won less than 9% of the vote this time.
Political observers have warned that a further shift in the European Parliament to the right would raise the cost of living, raise concerns about the status of migrants and create challenges in the green energy transition and support for Ukraine.