European Parliament Election: May 23-26, 2019

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Unity should be able to get a seat from around their General Election numbers but its far from certain - and we're talking about low turnout elections where strange things can happen.

Dombrovskis's plan is to get back on the Commission long term: getting elected an MEP is a route towards that I guess?

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Does Germany have the 5% hurdle back or is it gone for now? I thought the EU wanted to bring it back? (big mistake imo)

The proposal was a 2% threshold; but they didn't get it through in time for the election so they are threshold-less again.  And there's no guarantee that the constitutional court wouldn't just eliminate it again!

One of those lovely areas where EU and domestic law conflict a little.

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Wait are they counting today?  Didn't think they were allowed to do that!

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So there is a chance that 50+, PVV, SP and PvdD may all not reach the threshold making PvdA making gaining more seats. But that they have to return these seats after Brexit as the threshold will be lower which they will all reach as the there will 29 seats to distribute instead of 26 seats

my understanding was that they'd allocate seats based on the 29 seat allocation but then not make the last three MEPs until Brexit - that's wrong then?