European Parliament Election: May 23-26, 2019

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https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-mark-rutte-liberal-dream-team-upend-european-politics/
Although I'll be a bit disappointed if they decide to remove "liberal" from the group's name

Their declared goal is to be 2nd group in Parliament behind EPP. Seems doable. S&D will lose a lot. Labour MEP will be gone, Italian PD will be wiped out as well as the French socialists, and SPD may have a very bad result.
Will be hard to overtake the EPP though, even if Orban leaves.

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I would really appreciate some comments from Polish and French posters on the state of the race in their countries.

In France, there is a race for the 1st spot between LREM and Rassemblement National. Both will get more than 20% of the votes and RN seems to be leading the race. Then you have Les Republicans probably under 15%. No one else is sure to get more than 10%. In particular the left is very divided with 3 parties polling between 5 and 10% and 2 more just below 5%. There is also Debout la France (soverainist right) who is fighting to reach the 5% threshold. No else will reach 5%, which is the threshold to enter the Parliament.

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There are reports of many administrative mistakes in the UK that led EU citizens legally entitled to vote being prevented from doing so. If that's big enough I wonder if the elections will be annulled.

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I notice that the current EFDD group only has MEPs from 3 countries (Brexit Party, 5 Stars and AfD) They need 7 countries to form a group again. Not certain they will be able to do it.