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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 .
Results. Political groups formed at the first plenary session on 16–19 July 2024: [3] ... European Parliament Election 2024 Europe Elects: National elections
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.
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.
Kickl opposes sending aid to Kyiv and critics of the RN and other parties in the right-wing Patriots for Europe group, the third-largest in the European parliament, often argue they have been too ...
The 2024 European Parliament election was the first national election to be held in Germany since the 2021 federal election, in which former Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats CDU-CSU lost to the Social Democratic Party (SPD) led by Olaf Scholz [6] who formed a "traffic light coalition" with the Free Democratic Party (FDP) and the Alliance 90/The Greens.
About one hour after results for the European Parliament election showed that his Renaissance party would place a distant second to National Rally, Emmanuel Macron called for the dissolution of parliament and snap legislative elections occurring in two rounds on 30 June and 7 July. He decried the results of the election as indicating the rise ...
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.