Final vote in the European elections

Voting is ongoing on the last day of the European Parliament elections, with nationalists defying pro-European parties.

In total, 400 million people are eligible to participate. The vote has already taken place in seven of the 28 EU Member States.

The results will not be published until the closing of the last polls on Sunday night.

In Great Britain, the focus will be on the performance of the parties that are favorable and unfavorable to Brexit.

The British electoral law prevents the BBC, as well as other British broadcasters, from reporting in detail on campaigns or earnings forecasts until the closure of all polling stations.

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Across Europe, the right-wing nationalist parties have launched a coordinated challenge to the center-right and center-left groups that have been the dominant power in every European Parliament.

The Italian League party has teamed up with other right-wing groups, including the German AfD, the Finnish party and the Danish People's Party, to create the European Alliance of Peoples. and nations.

In doing so, they hope to change the balance of forces in the EU.

Although nationalist and Eurosceptic groups are currently among the smallest in the European Parliament, support for anti-immigration parties has increased since the 2014 elections.

European elections 2019 – who voted and when?

• May 23: The Netherlands, United Kingdom
• May 24: Ireland, Czech Republic (who also voted May 25)
• May 25: Latvia, Malta, Slovakia
• May 26: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden

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In the Netherlands – one of the first countries to vote on Thursday – the center-left Labor Party has already celebrated what it considers to be a political return based on exit polls, such as he saw it.

Exit surveys are not necessarily an accurate indication of the outcome.

In the 2017 national elections, the party collapsed from 38 seats out of 9 in parliament, apparently to punish its role in the coalition government where it helped to pbad the austerity measures. .

The UK vote, meanwhile, never took place after its decision to leave the European Union at a referendum in 2016.

But talks around an exit agreement with the EU delayed Brexit and led the British to go to the polls Thursday.

Brexit was a key issue for voters and Nigel Farage, a Eurosceptic activist, set up the Brexit Party, demanding an immediate withdrawal from the EU.

The two main parties, the Labor Party and the Conservative Party, fear a backlash on their management of Brexit.

Other pro-European parties, however, hope polls will "progress" in the polls.