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Far-right parties made big gains in the European Parliament in election results that rattled the traditional powers and made French President Emmanuel Macron call snap legislative elections.
The 2024 European Parliament election was held in the European Union (EU) between 6 and 9 June 2024. [4] It was the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first European Parliament election after Brexit.
The 61 members of the European Parliament allocated to Spain as per the Treaty of Lisbon and subsequent acts [a] [4] [5] were elected using the D'Hondt method and a closed list proportional representation, with no electoral threshold being applied in order to be entitled to enter seat distribution.
Results. Political groups formed at the first plenary session on 16–19 July 2024: [3] ... European Parliament Election 2024 Europe Elects: National elections
BRUSSELS (AP) — Nearly 400 million European Union citizens have been going to polls this week to elect members of the European Parliament, or MEPs, in one of the biggest global democratic events. Far-right parties are seeking to gain more power amid a rise in the cost of living and farmers' discontent, while the wars in Gaza and Ukraine stay ...
With almost all ballots counted, Brothers of Italy won 28.8%of the vote, more than four times what it took in the last European Union election in 2019, and exceeding the 26% it secured in the 2022 ...
The European Parliament took a shift to the right after a four-day election concluded on Sunday, with more eurosceptic nationalists and fewer mainstream liberals and Greens. The parliament's most ...
The European Commission president also requires majority support in the European Parliament, as does the 27-person Commission as a whole. The new parliament will convene for a first time on July 16.