The European Union elections start Thursday and results will be known late Sunday.
FILE - From left, lead candidates for the European Parliament elections, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, for the European People's Party and Nicolas Schmit, for the Party of European Socialists take part in a debate at the European Parliament in Brussels, on May 23, 2024.
As a result, the whole political pendulum of the giant bloc is likely to swing toward the right after the elections, a plethora of surveys indicate and political observers agree. But as the powers of the legislature grew on issues like banking rules, agriculture and the EU budget, so did voting interest and the quality of legislators. While breaking a 50% voter turnout threshold was considered a major step forward in 2019, an EU Parliament survey says 71% could vote in the upcoming elections, another massive step forward.
So even if the math adds up for a brilliant victory by the right on Sunday, the total will most likely be less than the sum of its parts.as woke fiction and uphold conservative family values, there also are fundamental divergences. When it comes to the war in Ukraine, for example, someone like Meloni stands with the West, unlike Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Others remain in a grey zone.
Even if coalitions in Parliament are brittle since legislators are sometimes beholden to national, not EU, agendas, von der Leyen is still eager to find a coalition that will give her the necessary 361 out of 720 votes to win a second five-year term as EU commission president, perhaps the most powerful position in the EU.
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