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First EU elections projection shows Greens and liberals tumbling
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https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2024/06/09/eu-election-results-hang-in-the-balance-as-polls-close
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Italy’s leader Giorgia Meloni has cemented her role as a key Brussels power broker with an estimated 26-30% of the votes, while in France, President Emmanuel Macron has performed so badly he’s been pushed to call snap elections.
A first estimate of election results produced by the European Parliament suggests the Green and liberal Renew parties each losing around 20 MEPs, potentially endangering the pro-European majority needed to back top officials and support EU laws.
In France, projections suggest the far-right National Rally (RN) party, has secured a whopping 31.5% of the votes — more than twice the number gained by Macron, who released a message on Twitter.
Exit polls suggest Meloni’s Brothers of Italy, which belongs to the right-wing European Conservatives and Reformists grouping, has performed much better than the centre-left Democratic Party opposition, whose support is estimated at 21-25%.
Among MEPs’ first tasks will be to approve the candidate to lead the European Commission, with incumbent president Ursula von der Leyen hoping to secure a second term.
MEPs will also get to amend or oppose new legislative proposals — leaving the fate of the EU Green Deal, an ambitious set of laws to cut carbon emissions, in the balance.
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