European Parliament Election: May 23-26, 2019

[Mike88]

Portugal: PSD and PS lead candidates announced.


Pedro Marques, PS lead candidate.


Paulo Rangel, PSD lead candidate.

The PSD and PS have chosen who will head their lists to the May EP election. For the PSD, Paulo Rangel is, once again and as expected, the chosen one. He was already the lead candidate in 2009 and 2014. For the PS is Pedro Marques, current minister of Infrastructures, although he will only be confirmed on February 16th in the socialists national convention.

[Tender Branson]

New Austria EU poll:





https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/politik/Umfrage-EU-Wahl-wird-zum-Krimi/367140956

There are also rumours that Greens + List Now/Initiative 1 Europe are in talks about a Unity List for this election only (or at least some people want it, while others don't). This would certainly be good, because if they run against each other, they could end up with 4% each - and both could fail to get a seat in the EP (because even though there's a 4% hurdle, you need more than that considering there are only 19 seats).

[Diouf]

Just saw this article now, so we won't get any news on ALDE candidates until late March

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https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-liberals-alde-delay-key-decision-on-lead-commission-candidates-margrethe-vestager-guy-verhofstadt/

[Tender Branson]

The FPÖ starts with the creation of first posters for the EU election:

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"They" = delusional pro-immigrant leftists

"him" = FPÖ Interior Minister Kickl

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[LAKISYLVANIA]

Eum, why?





I don't think I can vote for them, even if i wanted too?

[Tender Branson]

The KPÖ (Communist Party) has presented Katerina Anastasiou (35) today as their frontrunner:



Anastasiou (left) is a Greek citizen and came to Vienna 15 years ago.

The KPÖ's official list name will be "KPÖ Plus - European Left - Open List."

https://www.kleinezeitung.at/service/newsticker/5577288/Europawahlen_KPOe-tritt-bei-der-EUWahl-an

[Former President tack50]

Eum, why?





I don't think I can vote for them, even if i wanted too?

Are they going to try and run in all of Europe with their own party?

Which parties have adhered to this?

[bigic]

Croatian HSS party is considering to leave the EPP due to an irredentist remark of Antonio Tajani (president of the European Parliament from Forza Italia, also EPP), claiming Istra and Dalmacija as a part of Italy. Although HSS is running as a part of "Amsterdam Coalition" (formed after an ALDE Congress in Amsterdam, with HSS joining later) consisting of mostly ALDE parties so this is probably an excuse for HSS to leave the EPP and join ALDE.

https://mobile.twitter.com/KBeljak/status/1094978477692989441

[PSOL]

Eum, why?





I don't think I can vote for them, even if i wanted too?

Are they going to try and run in all of Europe with their own party?

Which parties have adhered to this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Europe_Movement_2025#National_parties_associated_with_DiEM25_(European_Spring)

[parochial boy]

Eum, why?





I don't think I can vote for them, even if i wanted too?

Are they going to try and run in all of Europe with their own party?

Which parties have adhered to this?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_Europe_Movement_2025#National_parties_associated_with_DiEM25_(European_Spring)

As muh as I like the idea of it, that is a bunch of really crap parties there...

[LAKISYLVANIA]

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More information. They have at least my signature, but i'm undecided whether to support them or GUE-NGL (PVDA). Most likely, they won't get on the ballot here. Otherwise, i might support them. They have good proposals & ideas.

[Tender Branson]

Popular TV cook Sarah Wiener will run as 2nd on the Green list for the EP elections.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Wiener

That's such a good choice that I might consider voting for the Greens in this election, after having ruled them out previously ...

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

Today SLD decided in voting overwhelmingly that they will participate in the EP elections in coalition with PO. There are also gossips that Greens will join (although I still somehow doubt that). So we might end up with EPP/S&D/ALDE/G-EFA coalition in Poland. Peak establishmetism.

[Diouf]

Today SLD decided in voting overwhelmingly that they will participate in the EP elections in coalition with PO. There are also gossips that Greens will join (although I still somehow doubt that). So we might end up with EPP/S&D/ALDE/G-EFA coalition in Poland. Peak establishmetism.

Polski wybory poll with that scenario

[Velasco]

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More information. They have at least my signature, but i'm undecided whether to support them or GUE-NGL (PVDA). Most likely, they won't get on the ballot here. Otherwise, i might support them. They have good proposals & ideas.

I could vote for them, since they have an associated 'party' in Spain called Actúa.  Anyway I think casting a ballot for the Varoufakis artifact is a waste and the Actúa project doesn't raise my enthusiasm. On the other hand, I don't think there is a great difference between the 'European Spring'* platform and those of GUE-NGL or Greens-EFA and the two latter incorporate electorally viable parties across Europe.

*There was a Spanish list called Primavera Europea ("European Spring") running in the 2014 EP elections. The list incorporated Equo (a small green party operating throughout Spain), Compromis (a left wing coalition operating in the Valencia region) and a bunch of tiny regional and local parties. Primavera Europea won a seat and I voted for that list.

[bigic]

Today SLD decided in voting overwhelmingly that they will participate in the EP elections in coalition with PO. There are also gossips that Greens will join (although I still somehow doubt that). So we might end up with EPP/S&D/ALDE/G-EFA coalition in Poland. Peak establishmetism.

Kinda like "Alliance for Serbia" where the centre-left Democratic Party (the party that led the government up to 2012., S&D member) and most of its splinters joined forces with Dveri (a right-wing socially conservative party known for its anti-LGBT views) and 2 or 3 similar minor right-wing movements in the name of "opposing Vučić and SNS" (EPP, but closer to Orban than to Merkel). Though there are probably less ideological differences inside the proposed Polish alliance than inside the Serbian alliance.

AFAIK there are also proposals of a joint list of 2 Hungarian parties for the EP election - LMP (green) and Jobbik (right-wing populist). So maybe the same virus is infecting the opposition parties in all coutries with "Orbanist" governments...

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

And the gossips actually were true, Greens decided that they want to take part in the elections as PO vassal. They are rather irrelevant but still.

[Tirnam]

France - Ifop poll

Without a Yellow Vest list

LREM: 24% (+1)
RN: 20% (-1)
LR: 10% (=)
EELV: 9% (+2.5)
LFI: 7.5% (-2)
PS: 6% (=)
DLF: 6% (-1.5)
Other lists under the 5% threshold

With a Yellow Vest list

LREM: 24%
RN: 20%
LR: 10%
EELV: 8.5%
LFI: 7%
PS: 6%
DLF: 6%
Other lists under the 5% threshold (including the Yellow Vest list at 3%)

[Former President tack50]

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More information. They have at least my signature, but i'm undecided whether to support them or GUE-NGL (PVDA). Most likely, they won't get on the ballot here. Otherwise, i might support them. They have good proposals & ideas.

I could vote for them, since they have an associated 'party' in Spain called Actúa.  Anyway I think casting a ballot for the Varoufakis artifact is a waste and the Actúa project doesn't raise my enthusiasm. On the other hand, I don't think there is a great difference between the 'European Spring'* platform and those of GUE-NGL or Greens-EFA and the two latter incorporate electorally viable parties across Europe.

*There was a Spanish list called Primavera Europea ("European Spring") running in the 2014 EP elections. The list incorporated Equo (a small green party operating throughout Spain), Compromis (a left wing coalition operating in the Valencia region) and a bunch of tiny regional and local parties. Primavera Europea won a seat and I voted for that list.

Worth noting that this time Primavera Europea only includes regional parties (Compromis-NCa-Mes-ChA).

So this time a vote for them is pretty much a vote for Compromis (the other 3 aren't getting seats)

[LAKISYLVANIA]

Well i'm 100% sure of my vote anyways. It's going to be GUE-NGL. The candidate they have selected is a very good pick, and they have a much bigger shot at actually electing someone than European spring. 

[Velasco]

Worth noting that this time Primavera Europea only includes regional parties (Compromis-NCa-Mes-ChA).

So this time a vote for them is pretty much a vote for Compromis (the other 3 aren't getting seats)

I like Mónica Oltra and some of the folks at Compromís, but possibly I'll vote for another list in the May elections. Maybe Unidos Podemos, in case Pablo Bustinduy is still the candidate. 

[Tender Branson]

The Greens are polling at 9% in the new Ö24 poll, their best result so far in an EU poll (NOW are at 2%).

https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/politik/Strache-gewinnt-nach-Papa-Monat/368980577

[parochial boy]

The Greens are polling at 9% in the new Ö24 poll, their best result so far in an EU poll (NOW are at 2%).

https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/politik/Strache-gewinnt-nach-Papa-Monat/368980577

Presumably the fact that it's been 15°C at 2000m altitude in February is quite helpful for them...

[Tender Branson]

The Greens are polling at 9% in the new Ö24 poll, their best result so far in an EU poll (NOW are at 2%).

https://www.oe24.at/oesterreich/politik/Strache-gewinnt-nach-Papa-Monat/368980577

Presumably the fact that it's been 15°C at 2000m altitude in February is quite helpful for them...

Maybe, or maybe not ...

Climate change is a topic which is certainly helping the Alpine Greens, as the glaciers are melting away in record speed. And the Austrian Greens have also shifted back to the bread-and-butter issues like this, or environmental protection or food safety etc. - while mostly ignoring the migration topic after their stunning (and well-deserved) defeat in the 2017 election.

On the other hand it could also be a polling error and there have been some scandals in the past week surrounding Green Party members.

[Tender Branson]

The FPÖ will present their list for the EU election on Tuesday.

Of their current 4 representatives, 2 will retire.

Harald Vilimsky (= Lord Voldemort) will once again be their frontrunner, reports the "Krone" (nothing surprising really).

Georg Mayer, also already an MEP, will run on the 2nd list spot.

3rd: Petra Steger, daughter of Norbert Steger, who once lost to Jörg Haider in the FPÖ leadership election in 1986.

4th: Roman Haider (not related to Jörg Haider)

Both Steger and Haider are currently members in the Austrian Parliament.

5th: Vesna Schuster (with Serbian migration background)