European Parliament poised for rightward shift after final voting
BRUSSELS - Voters in 21 EU countries including France and Germany will conclude a four-day election for the European Parliament on Sunday, which is expected to shift the assembly to the right and boost the numbers of eurosceptic nationalists.
The European Parliament has said it will issue an EU-wide exit poll at around 2030 CET and then a first provisional result after 2300 CET when the final EU votes, in Italy, have been cast. Hard and far-right parties have seized on this disquiet and offered the electorate an alternative to the mainstream.
His Freedom Party will be just one short of the combined seats of a Socialist Democrat-Greens alliance. The centre-right European People's Party is forecast to remain the European Parliament's largest group, putting its candidate to head the European Commission, incumbent Ursula von der Leyen of Germany, in pole position to be appointed for a second term.
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