Posted on 06/09/2024 11:57:17 AM PDT by Drew68
Exit polls show a historic win for Marine Le Pen's National Rally in France and is on course to trounce President Macron's party
Far-right parties have also made substantial gains in Austria and Germany, exit polls say
We will have a first projection of the new European Parliament at around 19:30 BST as the mammoth four-day, 27-country European election is coming to a close About 360 million eligible voters are choosing 720 new Members of the European Parliament (MEPs)
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Thanks for the post drew!
How many times have we heard this before?
“According to preliminary results from five countries, right-wing parties are estimated to have won at least 33 of the 174 seats available in Austria, Cyprus, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands, according to official exit polls from those countries, up from 19 seats at the last election in 2019.”
“And - as the ultraliberal FT admits - “the surge, at the expense of liberal and Green parties, would complicate European commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s bid for a second term as head of the EU’s executive.”
It’s not just France, people are fed up across Europe
Far-right“
Anything slightly right of Bernie is far right by BBC standards. Le Pen is not Far-right, far from it.
Eh? Netherlands alone looking at 31.
THey all do. I have been watching euronews and they don’t try to hide their bias LOL EVERY conservative is “far right” Italy PM Meloni ought to buy depends for everyone on the set. Greens are, “suffering”... Oh the Humanity!
“Deutschland den Deutschen, Ausländer raus!“
The problem with the muslim invasion is once the people could be honest and see what a mess they’re in, it is probably too late to fix the problem.
I went to W. & E. Germany a few decades ago. It was disturbing to see and hear the Turks on the street corners. This was when Iran was holding the American hostages.
The results are also due to an anti-green surge. The “far right” also hates green BS.
Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of the increase in right wing voting is at the expense of conservative parties, not the left.
TBD when all the results are in.
Other than on immigration, Marine Le Pen is a moderate conservative.
Belgian Premier resigns
Spain - Conservatives win Euro elections
But the Spanish delegation is not clearly right wing.
Out of 61 Euro reps for Spain -
PP (like US Republicans) - 22
Vox (Spanish MAGA) - 6
PSOE (Socialists) - 20
Other left wing (Sumar/Podemos) - 5
Somewhat libertarian, goes right usually (SALF) - 3
Regional left (Ahora Republicas) - 3
Regional (Junts, CEUS) - 2
I make it just slightly right - 31/61, with 2 uncertain depending on regional interests.
A big improvement though.
I guess there’s something I’m missing. If LePen’s National Rally is set to trounce Macron, why would he call a snap election? I don’t get it. Does he want defeat?
He's trying to call France's bluff. He's basically saying, "OK! You want Le Pen? Let's do it right now in a real election!"
Seems he did something like this and then at the 11th hour, French voters buckled.
Thanks. I wasn’t getting it.
I hope Trudeau does the same. We’re ready for him!
“I guess there’s something I’m missing. If LePen’s National Rally is set to trounce Macron, why would he call a snap election? I don’t get it. Does he want defeat?”
Oh no! No, indeed.! Macron wants an snap election to “fix” things. Let the people have their say. He will win and then can say “the voters have spoken’. A bit like the 2020 election when the media let us know we had voted for a return to “normalcy”.
With all the European countries having parliamentary governments, the Euro vote is like a confidence vote on their own leaders. Thus Macron has been given a no confidence vote by the people.
Usually it takes Parliament to vote to have a confidence vote for the leader, but when you see the people enmass doing it, Macron has to go this route to try and head off one from the Parliament.
This is how pissed voters in the. West are, and when we can, we will not be. ignored.
Even they. can steal the. Presidential. election, watch the Democrats across every state take it in the *^s come November.
This is something I didn’t expect to read:
“a new anti-migrant far-left party, BSW,”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnddkx7redro
The problem now isn't the Turks. Even some of them don't like the latest influx.
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