Election results: European Commission president says ‘we are the anchor of stability’, with European People’s Party projected to take 189 seats
European election results: Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission President and EPP lead candidate, after the vote for the European Parliament election in Brussels. Photogaph: John Thys/AFP via Getty ImagesAn initial projection based on early voting results from 17 countries, as well as exit polls and other data from the 10 other countries, shows the EPP will take 189 of the available 720 seats in the European Parliament.
Speaking on Sunday night, Ms von der Leyen said her EPP group, which includes Fine Gael, had won the election. The centre right People’s Party was the big winner in the Spanish elections, with exit polls showing it was likely to overtake prime minister Pedro Sánchez’s Socialist Workers’ Party as the biggest party.
Croatian Democratic Union, who sit with the EPP, are set to top the poll in Croatia, with an exit poll putting support for the party on 33 per cent. In Malta, parties that sit in the EPP and the S&D groups are predicted to each win three of the six available seats. The far right Alliance for Uniting Romanians was on course to come second in Romania, based on exit poll data.
The elections come at a testing time for voter confidence in a bloc of 450 million people. Over the past five years, the EU has been shaken by the coronavirus pandemic, an economic slump and an energy crisis fuelled by the biggest land conflict in Europe since the second World War.
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