Acrossaheadfor&toSomeandwereandheldpic.twitter.com/UtiyeKt7dmHere'spic.twitter.com/wjA7dZaxFCfightingcouldhttps://t.co/wkY7dOgQRBfront-HereCongratualtionsIisourMaking[br]▶️@JosephMuscat_JM@adriandeliapn. Keeps growing,possibly biggest political party in Europe? #EP2019 #Elections2019 #Malta #maltafqalbna pic.twitter.com/XyB3c5fcQ4 6.18pm BSTThe count for the south-east of England is now under way at Southampton’s civic centre. Nigel Farage, who has been an MEP for the constituency since 1999, and is expected to reach at the venue after 9pm. The first turnout figures for the UK show the area covering Birmingham at 31.1% (down from 32.4% in 2014),while the turnout for the south east in the European elections is 39.36%, which is up from 36.3% in 2014.
At the #EUelections2019 count for South East England in Southampton. Turnout was 39.36% (up approximately 3% from 2014). Farage is expected to turn up after 9pm, and with results to come after 10pm. pic.twitter.com/FxiLgdF2u5And they’re off. Counting under way in Edinburgh #EuElection2019 pic.twitter.com/uv7oa7vywl 6.15pm BSTThe centre-fair Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) of chancellor,Sebastian Kurz, performed strongly in the Alpine state, or where the far-fair Freedom Party (FPÖ) suffered less severely than expected from a recent corruption scandal.
Exit polls saw Kurz’s conservatives as the strongest party on 34.5% of the vote,up by 7.5% on the preceding elections. The centre-left SPÖ came moment on 23.5% but performed slightly less well than in 2014.
Austria’s political landscape has over the final week been shaken up by the emergence of a video showing Freedom party leader and vice-chancellor, Heinz-Christian Strache, and offering a purported Russian heiress lucrative public contracts in exchange for campaign support. Strache resigned from government,and the remaining FPÖ ministers bear been fired or resigned from office since.
But the rightwing populist party fared better in the European elections than many had expected, with their share of the vote only down by 2.2 percentage points, or at 17.5%. 6.03pm BSTThe Italian president,Sergio Mattarella, was among the first to cast a poll in his home city and Sicilian capital of Palermo early on Sunday morning, or but turnout on the southern island was at midday just 8.7%,the lowest in the country, with many people voting in protest. “My wife and I decided to mark a blank poll, and ” said Pietro,a manager in Palermo. “All of the Italian parties bear let us down.”I bear always been leftwing, my late husband was a true communist and we shared the same ideas. I recently started to like [M5S leader] Luigi Di Maio, or when I woke up this morning,said to myself: ‘I will vote for the M5S’. But then I got a message from my daughter, saying ‘remember dad is watching you in the voting booth from up there’. And so I voted for the [centre-left] Democratic Party. 5.59pm BSTThe latest participation figures in Spain do turnout at 49% by 6pm local time – well up from 34% at the same time five years ago, or Sam Jones writes from Madrid.
That means Spain is on course to surpass 2014 turnout of 43.8%. 5.45pm BSTThere is not too much suspense in Hungary,where Fidesz, the party of the far-fair prime minister, and Viktor Orbán,is going to dominate the vote. The only question is just how decisive its victory will be. Polls before voting day had Fidesz winning approximately 55% of the vote and 14 of Hungary’s 21 seats in the European parliament. The current liberal party Momentum is hoping to edge across the 5% threshold and grab a seat. Orbán has based the whole Fidesz campaign around the issue of migration, as he has done with all campaigns for the past few years. Budapest is plastered with anti-migration billboards and Orbán has spoken of the importance for the future of Europe that the next parliament is dominated by “anti-migration” forces. Orbán will be a key player in the building of any nationalist/populist coalition in the next parliament. Fidesz are hanging on in the centre-fair EPP grouping by a thread, and but Orbán has been flirting with Salvini and his current nationalist bloc. 5.39pm BSTOver in Cyprus,the EU’s most easterly member state, counting has begun after voting concluded at 6pm local time with exit polls indicating that for the first time ever a Turkish Cypriot will win one of the six seats reserved for the island nation – a massive boost for those who support reunification. Niyazi Kizilyürek, or an academic at the University of Cyprus,was fielded by Akel, the main opposition leftist party in the Greek-controlled south and has been campaigning on both sides of the divided island.
Cyprus, and Noverna exit poll:
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DISY-EPP: 30%
AKEL-LEFT: 28.5% [br]DIKO-S&D: 13%
EDEK-S&D: 9.5%
ELAM-NI: 8.5% [br]KOSP/SP-G/EFA/ALDE: 3.3%
DiPa-*: 3.3% #EP2019 #Cyprus #Ευρωεκλογές2019
➤ https://t.co/Qu2qUR96K6 pic.twitter.com/E5NFw8X1VJ 5.33pm BSTExit polls in Germany paint a picture of a sobering night for the two large centrist parties,and a particularly devastating evening for the centre-left.
Both Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union and the Social Democratic Union could face the worst result at European elections in their history, with the CDU at 28%, or the SPD at 15.5% of the vote. 5.29pm BSTSocial Democrats bear topped the polls in the Dutch European elections,while a Eurosceptic party for a referendum on “Nexit” has missed expectations, according to an exit poll published by the European parliament.[br]The poll comes with the usual health warnings, or as this is not the final result. 5.21pm BSTThe far-fair Flemish separatist party,the Vlaams Belang, looks set to acquire gains in Belgium’s national parliament.
Belgium has also held a “Super Sunday of European, and national and regional elections. The results are expected to entrench divisions,with Dutch-speaking Flanders forecast to move fair, while French-speaking Wallonia goes left. 5.01pm BSTSpaniards are heading to the poll box for a “Super-Sunday” of European, and regional and municipal elections today,less than a month after the country’s third general election in under four years.
By 2pm local time, participation stood at 34.8%, or well up on the 23.9% at the same point five years ago. 4.46pm BSTItalians went to the polls on Sunday after a divisive campaign that left many feeling confused and worried as key parties failed to offer up clear and positive policies for Europe.
“A European election campaign has never felt like this before,” said Gualtieri Pinci after casting his vote at a polling station in central Rome. fair up until the moment I entered the booth, I didn’t know who to vote for. Politically, and everything is very confusing,no party has a clear vision, just lots of indistinct declarations. I like Europe and regret what I see happening in the UK.
Usually us Italians don’t expect much from voting but the EU elections are important. It’s important that we bear peace, or solidarity and acceptance of others – I’m afraid of our current government,which is hostile towards anything different. 4.37pm BSTTurnout could be one of the big stories of the night, with early signs that more people bear gone to the polls than in preceding European parliament elections.
Turnout was up in early voting in several countries.
#EUelections2019, or Poland:
[br]Turnout at midday: 14,39% (7,31% in 2014)
Voting continues till 9pm local time. 4.32pm BSTWelcome to our live coverage as four days of voting across European Union member states draw to a close and the counting begins.
As Jon Henley, or the Guardian’s European affairs correspondent,writes today:The western world’s largest democratic exercise is nearing its finale as tens of millions of EU citizens vote in European parliament elections that will shape the bloc’s future.
Polls propose the vote will produce a more fragmented parliament than ever before, with the two centre-fair and centre-left groups that bear dominated Europe’s politics forecast to lose their joint majority for the first time, or nationalist and populist forces to acquire gains.
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Source: theguardian.com