European Parliament Election: May 23-26, 2019

[Andrea]

Italy
Poll by Istituto Piepoli. Fieldwork: 25/2/2019

Lega 31.5%
5 Starts 25%
PD 18.5%
Forza Italia 11%
FdI 4.5%
+Europa 3.5%

[Andrea]

New poll for Italy (published today in Corriere della Sera)

Lega 35.7
M5S 23.3
PD 19.0
Forza Italia 9.9
Brothers of Italy 4.0
+Europe-Italia in Comune 3.1
Left 2.0

[Andrea]

Austria will release all results of the election on 11pm, despite polls closing at 5pm already.

That’s because Italy closes their polls at 11pm.

The good thing is: all votes will be counted then already and I don’t have to wait for city, district, state or federal results ...

The bad thing: a boring election evening, because no early trends to project a final result - like usually.

https://orf.at/stories/3118312

Does anyone know if other countries such as Holland (DavidB. ?) or the UK are also embargoeing their results until Sunday, 11pm ?

In previous years, UK counted on Sunday and started to declare results after their 10PM (11 in Italy). First region declared in 2014 was at 10.17pm local time.

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 France (Ifop-Fiducial rolling poll for Paris Match; 25th april)

République en marche  22.5%
Rassemblement national  21%
Les Républicains   15%
France insoumise  9%
Greens 8.5%
Socialists 6%
Debout la France   4.0%
Génération.s   3%
Gilets Jaunes 2%
Les Patriotes 2.0%
Communists 2%
UDI 1.5%
Lutte ouvrière 1%
UPR 1%

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List of candidates for Italy published by Interior Ministry

https://dait.interno.gov.it/elezioni/trasparenza/europee2019

(you have to click on "liste e candidati", then select parties and area)

Mind you, in Italy we have open lists. So the order of appearance is not decisive (even if important as heads of lists should have a bonus).

PD

Incumbents standing again (20): Brando Benifei (NW), Mercedes Bresso (NW), Patrizia Toia (NW), Daniele Viotti (NW), Paolo de Castro (NE), Isabella de Monte (NE), Cecile Kyenge (NE), Simona Bonafè (Central), David Sassoli (Central), Roberto Gualtieri (Central), Nicola Danti (Central), Roberto Gualtieri (Central), Nicola Caputo (South), Andrea Cozzolino (South), Pina Picierno (South), Elena Gentile (South), Giuseppe Ferrando (South), Massino Paolucci (South), Caterina Chinnici (Islands), Michela Giuffrida (Islands)

Incumbents not standing again (10): Renata Briano (NW), Luigi Morgano (NW), Alessia Mosca (NW), Pierantonio Panzeri (NW), Flavio Zanonato (NE), Damiano Zoffoli (NE), Goffredo Bettini (Central), Silvia Costa (Central), Enrico Gasbarra (Central) , Roberto Soru (Islands),


Forza Italia


Standing again (9): Laura Comi (NW), Massimiliano Salini (NW), Antonio Tajani (Central), Lorenzo Cesa (South), Barbara Matera (South), Fulvio Martusciello (South), Aldo Patriciello (South), Alessandra Mussolini (serving for Central, standing in South), Salvatore Cicu (Islands),

Not standing again (2): Alberto Cirio (NW), Giovanni La Via (Islands)

5 stars


Standing again (12): Tiziana Beghin (NW), Eleonora Evi (NW), Marzo Zullo (NE), Laura Agea (Central), Fabio Castaldo (Central), Dario Tamburrano (Central), Isabella Adinolfi (South), Daniela Aiuto (South), Rosa d'Amato (South), Laura Ferrara (South), Piernicola Piedicini (South), Ignazio Corrao (Islands)


Lega

Standing again (4): Mara Bizzotto (NE), Angelo Ciocca (NE), Danilo Lancini (NW), Marco Zanni (NW)

Not standing (2): Mario Borghezio (NW), Giancarlo Scott (NE)


Fratelli d'Italia (elected as Forza Italia)

Incumbents standing (3): Raffaele Fitto (South), Elisabetta Gardini (NE), Stefano Maullo (NW)

Not standing (2): Remo Sernagiotto (NE), Innocenzo Leontini

+Europe

Standing again: David Borrelli (NE, elected as M5S)

Green Europe

Standing again: Marco Affronte (NE, elected as M5S)

Various on the Left:

Standing agai (1)n: Eleonora Forenza (South, elected in the Tsipras-Other Europe list, now standing for The Left),

Incumbents not standing again (4): Sergio Cofferati (NW, elected as PD), Elli Schlein (NE, elected as PD), Curzio Maltese (NW,  Tsipras-Other Europe list), Barbara Spinelli (Central, Tsipras-Other Europe list)

SVP

Re-Standing: Herbert Dorffmann (NE)

Others:

Not standing: Giulia Moi (Islands, elected as M5S),  Marco Valli (NW, elected as M5S).

[Andrea]

Guadeloupe,  Martinique, Guyane, Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon and Polynésie française will vote on Saturday. Otherwise everybody will be embargoed waiting for Guyane.
Count will be on Saturday at close of polls. Results embargoed....but will leak on the web as always.

Since the regional constituencies have been abolished, they won't matter much (with the oversee constituency electing 3 MEPs, these results had a significant weights on the oversee results given  Reunion was the only biggest territory voting on Sunday).

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List of candidates and "professions de foi" by French parties

Rassemblement National
https://programme-candidats.interieur.gouv.fr/data-pdf-propagandes/e8320c119b07ba42d51e053859419aacedd1e153d85607ef16a1d7f3b08b8e6e-profession-de-foi.pdfdf


En Marche
https://programme-candidats.interieur.gouv.fr/data-pdf-propagandes/f88d9a7d5449d5bab146385d1e1142bfbb525c1b4e9b45e017624a864a2611e0-profession-de-foi.pdf

Les Republicains
https://programme-candidats.interieur.gouv.fr/data-pdf-propagandes/f41c83dd3994467a9351c73deaf4d63c2128dc661839da139421f43fbe703ec5-profession-de-foi.pdf

France Insoumise
https://programme-candidats.interieur.gouv.fr/data-pdf-propagandes/bc47eb397585a5f3ac4e550b4b3a91930bd520de5c09ab3475c36df148f90792-profession-de-foi.pdf


Greens
https://programme-candidats.interieur.gouv.fr/data-pdf-propagandes/b66a37fedcb6c6c2ed824785ea49384cdb17bda28d09535f79be79af7e483658-profession-de-foi.pdf


Socialists
https://programme-candidats.interieur.gouv.fr/data-pdf-propagandes/01a0512ea02eb650f3374545274a14dbd088805d738b4a6385d1c7626eeeaf32-profession-de-foi.pdf


Rest can be found here:
programme-candidats.interieur.gouv.fr

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Slovakia seats should be

PS 4 (they got 20.1%)
Smer 3 (down to 15.7%)
ĽSNS-NI 2 (12% in the end)
SaS 2
KDH 1+1 after Brexit
OĽaNO 1

Rest 0

Latvia has reported 90% of the votes cast
According to newspaper Skaties, seats assured are
JV 2
S 2
NA 1
AP! 1
LKS 1


last seat in play between second NA seat, a seat for ZZS and third JV seat


First tallies from Malta indicate a 56-38% in favour of Labour according to Times of Malta.

[Andrea]

At midday


France: 19.26% (15.7 in 2014)

Italy: 16.72% (16.66 in 2014)

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Malta full results with all transfers

https://electoral.gov.mt/ElectionResults/MEP

Elected

Dalli, Miriam (Labour) first count
Metsola, Roberta (PN) first count
Sant, Alfred (Labour) stage 14
Casa, David (PN) stage 21
Agius Saliba, Alex (Lab) stage  39
Cutajar, Josianne (Lab) stage 39

So 4 to 2 compared to 3-3 last time

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Italy
61,539 out of 61,576 polling stations reported


Lega 34.27
PD 22.73
5 Stars 17.06
Forza Italia 8.78
Fratelli d'Italia 6.45

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Germany  seats allocation

CDU/CSU 29 seats
Greens 21
SPD 16
AFD 11
Linke 5
FDP 5
Die Partei (2.4%) 2
Freie Whaler (2.2%) 2
Tierschutzpartei (1.4%) 1
ODP (1%) 1
Piraten (0.7%) 1
Familie (0.7%) 1
VOLT (0.7%) 1


Die Partei is Party for Labour, Rule of Law, Animal Protection, Promotion of Elites and Grassroots Democratic Initiative. They already had 1 MEP in 2014-19.
They are a satirical outfit.

Freie Whaler is up from 1 to 2. They sit with ALDE

Tierschutzpartei is Party Human Environment Animal Protection. Their previous MEP sat in GUE but he has left the party during the 2014-19 parliament

ODP is Ecological Democratic Party. They sat with the Green in 2014-19

Familie is Family Party. They got a MEP in 2014 who then defected to Freie Whaler and then to some Christian Democrat party. He sat in ECR group

Piraten sat with Greens/EFA.

VOLT is a pan-European movement, sort of social liberal and progressive

[Andrea]

Interesting: Catalonian politician Carles Puigdemont, who had already been in custody in my home state of Schleswig-Holstein, but eventually been remanded on bail by the state's constitutional court, has won a seat for his Partit Demòcrata Europeu Català. However, he's living in exile in Belgium, and in order to be allowed to assume his seat, he has to pledge allegiance to the Spanish constitution. In Madrid! But should he be going to travel there, he would be immediately arrested for rebellion. He's being a bit in a quandary right now... 🤷‍♂️

Also Oriol Junqueras has been elected for ECR. Junqueras is in jail. He will likely be granted permission to leave jail and go to fill the papers needed to become an MEP

However, then things get unclear.
He and others did the same last week for the parliamentary seats. However, as they are accused of rebellion, they were then immediately  temporarily  suspended as MPs
It is apparently not clear if this law also applied to European Parliament.
Another aspect under consideration is when immunity given by being MEP starts. Apparently it starts when they fill some forms in July in Strasbourg. Will they grant him to leave jail for a one day trip to Strasbourg as they granted him to go to Spanish Parliament to fill the paperwork? Not necesseraly.

[Andrea]

MEPs elected in Italy (open lists)

Lega (28+1 after Brexit): Matteo Salvini x 5 (he was up in all regions), Angelo Ciocca MEP, Silvia Sardone, Isabella Tovaglieri, Danilo Lancini MEP, Gianna Gancia, Stefania Zambelli, Alessandro Panza, Marco Zanni MEP, Mara Bizotto MEP, Gianantonio Da Re, Poalo Borchia, Alessandra Basso, Elena Lizzi, Marco Dreosto, Susanna Ceccardi, Antonio Rinaldi, Anna Bonfrisco, Simona Baldassarre, Luisa Regimenti, Massimo Casanova, Andrea Caroppo, Lucia Vuolo, Valentino Grant, Annalisa Tordino,

Given Salvini won't take up any of his seats, the following candidates will be also be elected: Marco Camponesi, Rosanna Conte, Matteo Adinolfi (only after Brexit), Vicenzo Sofo, Francesca Donato

PD (19): Giuliano Pisapia, Irene Tinagli, Pierfrancesco Majorino, Patrizia Toia MEP, Brando Benifei MEP, Carlo Calenda, Elisabetta Gualmini, Paolo De Castro MEP, Alessandra Moretti, Simona Bonafè MEP, Pietro Bartolo, David Sassoli MEP, Massimiliano Smeriglio, Franco Roberti, Giuseppe Ferrandino MEP, Andrea Cozzolino MEP, Pina Picierno MEP, Caterina Chinnici MEP

Bartolo has been elected both in Centre and Islands. Those waiting for his option are Roberto Gualtieri MEP (chairman of Economy Committee) (Centre) or Andrea Soddu (Islands)

5 Stars (14): Eleonora Evi MEP, Tiziana Beghin MEP, Marco Zullo MEP, Sabrina Pignedoli, Fabio Castaldo MEP, Daniela Rondinelli, Chiara Gemma, Laura Ferrara MEP, Piernicola Pedicini MEP, Rosa D'Amato MEP, Isabella Adinolfi MEP, Mario Furore, Dino Giarrusso, Ignazio Corrao MEP.

Forza Italia (6+1 after Brexit): Silvio Berlusconi x 3, Massimiliano Salini MEP, Antonio Tajani MEP, Salvatore De Meo, Aldo Patriciello MEP (after Brexit seat but maybe immediately if Berlusconi opts for another region)

Waiting for Berlusconi's decision on which region he will sit for: Laura Comi MEP (North West), Fulvio Martusciello MEP (South and in his case waiting also for Brexit), Giuseppe Milazzo (Islands)

Fratelli di Italia (5+1 after Brexit): Giorgia Meloni x5 , Carlo Fidanza

Assuming Meloni doesn't take her seat(s): Piero Fiocchi, Sergio Berlato (only after Brexit), Nicola Procaccini, Raffaele Fitto MEP, Raffaele Stancanelli

SVP (1): Herbert Dorfmann MEP

MEP indicates incumbents.

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French MEPs

names underlined are incumbents re-elected

Rassemblement National: M. Jordan BARDELLA ,Mme Hélène LAPORTE ,M. Thierry MARIANI, Mme Dominique BILDE, M. Hervé JUVIN, Mme Joëlle MELIN, M. Nicolas BAY, Mme Virginie JORON, M. Jean, Paul GARRAUD, Mme Catherine GRISET, M. Gilles LEBRETON, Mme Maxette PIRBAKAS-GRISONI, M. Jean-François JALKH, Mme Aurélia BEIGNEUX, M. Gilbert COLLARD, Mme Julie LECHANTEUX, M. Philippe OLIVIER, Mme Annika BRUNA, M. Jérôme RIVIÈRE, Mme France JAMET, M. André ROUGÉ, Mme Mathilde ANDROUËT, M. Jean-Lin LACAPELLE (last one only with Brexit)


EnMarche & Co: Mme Nathalie LOISEAU,  M. Pascal CANFIN, Mme Marie-Pierre VEDRENNE
M. Jérémy DECERLE, Mme Catherine CHABAUD, M. Stéphane SÉJOURNÉ ,Mme Fabienne KELLER, M. Bernard GUETTA, Mme Irène TOLLERET, M. Stéphane BIJOUX, Mme Sylvie BRUNET, M. Gilles BOYER
Mme Stéphanie YON-COURTIN, M. Pierre KARLESKIND, Mme Laurence FARRENG, M. Dominique RIQUET, Mme Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR M. Pascal DURAND, Mme Valérie HAYER, M. Christophe GRUDLER, Mme Chrysoula ZACHAROPOULOU, M. Sandro GOZI, Mme Ilana CICUREL (last 2 only with Brexit)

Greens: M. Yannick JADOT, Mme Michèle RIVASI, M. Damien CARÊME, Mme Marie TOUSSAINT
M. David CORMAND, Mme Karima DELLI, M. Mounir SATOURI, Mme Caroline ROOSE, M. François ALFONSI, Mme Salima YENBOU, M. Benoît BITEAU, Mme Gwendoline DELBOS-CORFIELD, M. Claude GRUFFAT (last one only with Brexit)

Republicains: M. François-Xavier BELLAMY, Mme Agnès EVREN, M. Arnaud DANJEAN, Mme Nadine MORANO, M. Brice HORTEFEUX, Mme Nathalie COLIN-OESTERLÉ, M. Geoffroy DIDIER, Mme Anne SANDER

France Insoumise: Mme Manon AUBRY, M. Manuel BOMPARD, Mme Leïla CHAIBI, M. Younous OMARJEE, Mme Anne-Sophie PELLETIER, M. Emmanuel MAUREL

Socialists & co: M. Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Mme Sylvie GUILLAUME, M. Éric ANDRIEU, Mme Aurore LALUCQ, M. Pierre LARROUTUROU, Mme Nora MEBAREK (last one only with Brexit)

So 75% of the 2019-24 intake is indeed new

[Andrea]

Manfred Weber is re-elected EPP chairman. 156 votes for Weber, 4 invalid.

EPP Vice-Chairs

Arnaud Danjean (LR; France)
Esteban Gonzalez Pons (PP, Spain)
Ewa Kopacz (Civic Platform, Poland)
Andrey Kovatchev (GERB, Bulgaria)
Esther de Lange (CDA, Netherlands)
Mairead McGuinness (FG, Ireland)
Evangelos Meimarakis (ND; Greece)
Siegfried Muresan (PNL, Romania)
Paulo Rangel (PSD; Portugal)
Dubravska Suica ((HDZ, Croatia)


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Die Partei's Nico Semsrott has joined the Green group.

[Andrea]

The biggest municipality not to have RN or LREM in the lead is, I think, Montreuil which was carried by the Greens (24.31%)

[Andrea]

Official portraits are starting to be uploaded, for those who already showed up in Strasburg/Bruxelles. They have 417 incoming MEPs so far

https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/official-portraits-of-meps-9th-parliamentary-term-starting-02-july-2019_12401_pk

[Andrea]

Volt MEP will join Green/EFA group after a vote of membership between Greens, ALDE or Non Inscrits.

[Andrea]

The anwser is really easy. Some gruops loose all their MEPs from UK...

yes, just after writing, I remembered there are UK seats to subtract and i delated my question while you were answering it.

[Andrea]

ALDE is now Renew Europe.

Final composition of Greens/EFA is 75 MEPs. Full list: www.greens-efa.eu/en/article/news/newly-elected-greens-efa-meps/


Co-Presidents:

Philippe Lamberts (Ecolo, Belgium)
Ska Keller (Die Grunen, Germany)

First Vice-President:

Alyn Smith (SNP; UK)

Vice-Presidents:

Terry Reintke (Die Grunen, Germany)
Ernest Urtasun (Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds, Spain)
Gwendoline Delbos Corfield (Europe Ecologie, France)
Bas Eickhout (GroenLinks, Netherlands) * Also Treasurer
Alice Bah Kuhnke (Miljöpartiet de gröna, Sweden)
Molly Scott Cato (Greens, UK)


ENF becomes Identity and Democracy. 73 MEPs from 9 countries

President: Marco Zanni (Lega, Italy)
Vice Presidents: Nicolas Bay (FN, France) and Jörg Meuthen (AFD; Germany)

[Andrea]

Dacian Ciolos (Romania) wins Renew Europe (ex ALDE) leadership vote. He beats  Sophie In’t Veld (Netherlands, D66) 65 to 41 votes. The third candidate Fredrick Ferderley (Sweden, Centre) withdrew

[Andrea]

The other Renew Europe Vice Presidents are

Iskra MIHAYLOVA (MRF, Bulgaria)
Katalin CSEH (Momentum, Hungary)
Frédérique RIES (MR, Belgium)
Morten LØKKEGAARD (Venstre, Denmark)
Luis GARICANO (Ciudadanos, Spain)
Dominique RIQUET (Renaissance, France)
Martin HORWOOD (LibDems, UK)

[Andrea]

Only GUE left to appoint leader. S&D need to sort out Vice Presidents too.

Today, ECR held its constitutive meeting in the EP. Ryszard Legutko (PiS) and Raffaele Fitto (FdI) will co-chair the group. Vice-chairs will be Derk Jan Eppink (FVD), Daniel Hannan (Conservatives), Assita Kanko (N-VA), Peter Lundgren (Sweden Democrats), Hermann Tertsch (Vox) and Roberts Zile (National Alliance). Dutch CU are out, SGP remain in.

Co-Treasures

Angel Dzhambazki (Bulgaria, IMRO)
Kosma Zlotowski (Poland, PiS)

[Andrea]

S&D need to sort out Vice Presidents too.

Elected this afternoon

Eric Andrieu (France)
Biljana Borzan (Croatia)
Miriam Dalli (Malta)
Helene Fritzon (Sweden)
Roberto Gualtieri (Italy)
Bernd Lange (Germany)
Claude Moraes (UK)
Kati Piri (Netherlands)
Rovana Plumb (Romania)

Eero Heinaluoma (Finland) as Treasurer.