One of the world’s largest democratic exercises gets underway this week, with some 373 million people across the European Union eligible to vote in elections for the next European Parliament.
Voters in the 27 nations of the EU head to the polls from Thursday to Sunday to elect 720 members of the parliament, which will play a crucial role in shaping the priorities and political direction of the bloc for the next five years. The vote comes at a pivotal moment for the EU, which is grappling with issues ranging from the wars in Ukraine and Gaza to immigration and climate change.
To simplify the work of the parliament, leaders of national governments form alliances with each other based on their shared political beliefs – the European political parties. If a politician is a member of, for example, French President Emmanuel Macron’s Renaissance party in France, he or she will stand for that party as an MEP at a national level.
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