Upcoming European polls - Party coalition favoring von der Leyen as front-runner evident.
According to recent figures from ARD and ZDF, the center-right coalition EVP, spearheaded by German lead candidate Ursula von der Leyen, is predicted to win a big victory in the European election. Preliminary results suggest that the EVP might acquire roughly 180 of the total 720 seats in the upcoming European Parliament, which is similar to their performance in the 2019 election. This implies that von der Leyen could potentially secure another term as the EU Commission's President. The data was derived from surveys and calculations.
Compared to the 2019 European election, this would represent stability. The Social Democrats are projected to secure around 135 seats, slightly fewer than they did five years ago. Following that, the Liberals are expected to lose anywhere between 81 and 87 seats. The two alliances of right-wing populist parties, ECR and ID, would collectively gain approximately 30 seats, with around 80 and approximately 70 seats respectively. The German AfD, currently predicted to make a few seat gains, would be classified as a non-faction group since they had been excluded from the ID faction before the European election. Altogether, right-wing parties are expected to see the biggest gains as per the data. The Greens, however, might experience a significant decline and end up with less than 60 seats.
Race to the finish in the Netherlands
Dutch voters had cast their ballots on Thursday, where a potential red-green coalition is locked in a tight battle against radical right-wing populist party, led by Geert Wilders. The liberal VVD is close behind in the race.
In Austria, the right-wing FPO is tipped to emerge victorious in the election, per a trend estimate published around the time the polls closed. The right-wing populists are in the lead with 27%, followed closely by the social democratic SPO and the conservative OVP. Austria is expected to earn 20 of the future 720 seats in the European Parliament.
In Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis' party Nea Demokratia is forecast to win about 30%, while Syriza - the party that governed under Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during the economic crisis from 2010 to 2018 - is projected to receive around 17%.
In the smallest nation of the EU, Malta, the social democratic government party Labor is anticipated to suffer significant losses. They could only win three of the six Maltese seats in the European Parliament, whereas the conservative opposition party Nationalist Party could potentially grab two to three seats.
Additional projections were expected to be released throughout the evening. As per the timetable of the European Parliament, data from Denmark, France, and Spain should be made public between 8:15 and 8:45 PM, and around an hour later, at 9:15 PM, calculations from Poland, Portugal, Romania, and Sweden were scheduled to be announced.
