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Volt ultimately won 2.4% of votes, its best national performance in any election to date, and three seats, marking the party's first entrance into a national legislature. [9] [10] The three seats of Volt were filled by Laurens Dassen, Nilüfer Gündoğan, and Marieke Koekkoek. The latter was elected because of individual preference votes. [11 ...
National sections of Volt Europa. The borders of the European Union are shown in red. Volt Europa was founded on 29 March 2017 by Andrea Venzon, Colombe Cahen-Salvador, and Damian Boeselager, on the same day that the United Kingdom formally announced its intention to leave the European Union under Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union.
Volt Hamburg was the first national association of Volt Germany to be founded in late 2019. By April 2021, the founding of the other 15 state associations followed, so that Volt Germany is now organized nationwide in state associations. Volt's first elections were the 2019 European elections. Due to different national registration requirements ...
Volt has been active in Belgium since 2017 and was officially founded as a party on 28 July 2018. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The then 19-year-old Arno Sterck was elected chairman. [ 9 ] It was the first national section of the paneuropean movement to participate in an election.
Volt Italy (in Italian: Volt Italia) is an Eurofederalist political party in Italy. It is an affiliate of Volt Europa and was founded in 2018. Volt was unable to take part in the 2019 European Parliament election in Italy, failing to obtain the required 150,000 notarised supporter signatures. Since then, the party has contested municipal and ...
Volt France was founded in February 2018 and officially registered as a party in August of the same year. [5] The motivation for the founding was rising populism throughout Europe, which worried the founders and culminated in Brexit.
Volt Ukraine (Ukrainian: Вольт Україна, romanized: Volʹt Ukrayina, abbreviated Volt) is a social-liberal political party in Ukraine. [8] It is the Ukrainian branch of Volt Europa , a political movement that operates on a European level.
Volt Greece was founded in 2018. [1] In July 2022, the group elected its first executive secretariat, with Nikolas Fournarakis and Olga Dourou as co-chairs, and Electra Rome Dochtsi as General Secretary.