{"id":188945,"date":"2019-05-27T06:02:43","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T06:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188945"},"modified":"2019-05-29T05:44:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T05:44:04","slug":"french-far-right-beats-macron-in-eu-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188945","title":{"rendered":"French far right beats Macron in EU election"},"content":{"rendered":"

David M. Herszenhorn \u2013 Politico.com May 27, 2019<\/h1>\n
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Marine Le Pen.<\/p><\/div>\n

Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally scored a first-place finish in the European election in France, besting President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance list, according to early projections of the French vote \u2014 a major victory for populist, Euroskeptic forces.<\/span><\/p>\n

National Rally, a rebranding of Le Pen’s National Front party, scored about 24 percent of the vote, compared with roughly 22.5 percent for Macron’s centrist-liberal party, according to two initial projections.<\/span><\/p>\n

National Rally was expected to be at the forefront of a nationalist-populist wave across Europe, in which far-right forces were projected to capture as much as one-third of seats in the European Parliament.\u00a0Big gains were also expected for Matteo Salvini’s far-right League in Italy.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Germany, early results show the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in fourth place with 10 seats, a gain of three seats compared with 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n

The AfD’s gains came as Germany’s Social Democrats suffered a collapse at the polls, losing a projected 11 seats. That shortfall, in the EU’s largest country, is expected to dash any center-left hopes of overtaking the center-right European People’s Party as the biggest group in the European Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n

POLITICO projections point to the EPP holding its top spot, even as mainstream parties are expected to see their overall share of the Parliament shrink.<\/span><\/p>\n

Europe’s socialists, however, did have one major bright spot: Spain, where Prime Minister Pedro S\u00e1nchez led his Progressive Socialist Workers\u2019 Party (PSOE) to a strong victory over the conservative People\u2019s Party (PP). Initial projections show the PSOE winning 28.4 percent of the vote, and capturing 18 seats in Parliament, a pick-up of four seats. The PP finished second in Spain with 17.3 percent and 11 seats in Parliament, a loss of five seats.<\/span><\/p>\n

Spain\u2019s liberal Ciudadanos Party is projected to win 16 percent, the leftist Podemos party to win 12.4 percent, and the far-right Vox Party 6.5 percent. That would give the liberals nine seats, the leftists seven seats and the far-right four seats.<\/span><\/p>\n

The exiled former Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont, who ran his campaign from Brussels, is also projected to win a seat, along with his former deputy, Oriol Junqueras.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Voters across Europe shunned traditional centrist parties in favour of populists on both the left and the right<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188945"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188948,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188945\/revisions\/188948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}