BRUSSELS: Voters across Europe cast their ballots Sunday (Jun 9) on the final - and biggest - day of elections for the EU's parliament, with far-right parties expected to m
A voter holds his voting card on the day of the vote for the European parliament elections at a polling station in the 9th district of Paris on Jun 9, 2024. BRUSSELS: Voters across Europe cast their ballots Sunday on the final - and biggest - day of elections for the EU's parliament, withPolling stations opened in 21 member countries, including heavy hitters France and Germany, for the vote that helps shape the European Union's direction over the next five years.
More than 360 million people were eligible to vote across the EU's 27 nations in the elections that started Thursday - although only a fraction are expected to cast their ballots. Hungarian voter Ferenc Hamori, 54, said he wanted to see the EU led more by politicians like his country's right-wing premier Viktor Orban - even though he expected him to remain"outnumbered in Brussels".France will be the EU's high-profile battleground for the competing ideologies.
Leading the polls are the centre-right Christian Democrats, credited with 30 per cent of votes - but on 14 percent the AfD is either neck-and-neck or ahead of all three parties in the ruling coalition: SPD, Greens and the liberal FDP. Meloni is also important to von der Leyen's bid for a second mandate as European Commission chief, which will be decided by EU leaders but also needs majority assent in the new European Parliament.
It could also further bring the far right into the mainstream, as has happened in Italy and the Netherlands where they dominate governing coalitions.But there has been some backlash against the surge in populism and in Hungary Orban faced a challenge from former government insider Peter Magyar.
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