EU elections: populist right makes gains but pro-European centre holds

It wasn’t just in France that the far right was celebrating on Sunday night. In Germany and Austria, parties on the populist right made stunning gains in the– but despite that, the pro-European centre appeared to have held in a set of results likely to complicate EU lawmaking.The Christian Democratic Union/Christian Social Union, now in opposition, took a decisive lead, with an expected 29.5% of the vote. The AfD jumped to 16.

Despite gains for the far and radical right, the mainstream, pro-European parties appear on course to hold their majority. Socialists won the largest share of the vote in Malta, Romania and Sweden, helping the centre-left to retain its position as the parliament’s second largest group, albeit far weaker than the 1990s, when it led many more governments.

The European People’s party, Socialists and Democrats, the centrist Renew group and the Greens were on course for 456 of the 720 seats, a 63% share, compared with their 69.2% share in the slightly smaller outgoing parliament, according to a projection based on provisional results and exit polls late on Sunday.

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