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EU Elections 2024 - Results

Francie Barrett · 2024-06-08 09:27:05

Separate discussion for the EU election results.

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#1502 17-06-2024 7:48am
Peregrinus

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No, that's not right. Post Brexit (i.e. after the rebalancing of the political groups when UK MEPs withdrew from the Parliament) ID had 76 members and I think still had going into the election. Of those, 9 were German MEPs of the AfD party.
After the election they have 58 members, a net loss of 18. So, in addition to losing the 9 AfD members, they've lost 9 other members. AfD have 15 members after the election, a gain of 6, but if we aggregate ID and AfD it comes to 73, a net loss of 3 seats.
The right has nevertheless gained seats, but it's not ID who are the beneficiaries; it's ECR, which has gained 21 seats, largely due to a strong performance by Fratelli d'Italia. They would have done better still, except the Law and Justice Party in Poland lost 7 of its seats.

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