European Parliament Election: May 23-26, 2019

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The FI-Podemos-BE-Scandinavian group seems to be more eurosceptic and to consider Syriza traitors of the anti-austerity position. Cf. Heat's post:

What with the talk about Macron's attempt to create his own European Parliament grouping, everyone seems to have missed that Mélenchon seems to be trying to do the same thing. It seems to be the result of him getting pissed off with GUE/NGL refusing to expel SYRIZA for being sellouts and trying to launch his own Eurosceptic left-wing movement.

Utter vanity though this may be, it's probably still more interesting than what Varoufakis and Hamon are doing, given that it's made up of parties that are actually somewhat successful in their home countries and likely to win seats in the European Parliament. They would, however, need a seventh country for an EP group, and I'm not sure who that could be? Sahra Wagenknecht's movement is the natural missing link, but we're still not even sure if that will even contest elections. The Belgian PTB/PVDA, perhaps (though they might be a little too orthodox), or the Slovenian Left. One to watch, anyway.

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Has someone a good idea on what European political parties we will get?
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EPP  100%
S&D  100%
ECR  Without the Tories, PiS would be dominant. PiS might try to get into EPP and the Western Europeans might not feel comfortable in an Eastern-dominated group.
ALDE  Will continue, but composition depends heavily on Macron's grouping. If Macron drags away enough left-liberals, N-VA etc. might join.
Greens-EFA  99%
EFDD  Without UKIP there is basically only M5* and some Eastern European splinters. Might merge with ECR, some could go to ENF.
ENF  Difficulty won't be the number of MEPs, but the number of countries. Some (FPÖ, lmao) might try to dissociate themselves from the others because muh respectability.
GUE(-NGL) With Now the People splitting off, Linke and Syriza will be left out in the cold with some orthodox commies and random splinters, GUE is heavily at risk.

New:
DiEM25 (supported by Loach, Chomsky and Assange) Probably not going anywhere.
The Movement (supported by Bannon) This guy is too full of himself. Some from ENF might search his advice, some will not, won't be enough for a Bannon Movement by far.
En Marche Quite plausible that Macron can form a group with LREM, C's, maybe and Renzi or Bonino list and EU federalist and left-liberal parties from other countries.
Now The People Quite plausible.