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She is a member of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its affiliated European political party, the European People's Party (EPP). On 7 March 2024, the EPP elected her as its Spitzenkandidat to lead the campaign for the 2024 European Parliament elections. She was re-elected to head the Commission in July 2024. [3]
A projection by poll aggregator Europe Elects forecast in April that out of the 720 seats available in the EP, the Group of the centre-right European People's Party (EPP) would win 183, the centre ...
European People's Party: 171 –6: Party of European Socialists: 129 –7: European Conservatives and Reformists Party: 58 +6: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party: 58 –13: Identity and Democracy Party: 57 –19: European Green Party: 42 –12: Party of the European Left: 29 +1: European Democratic Party: 9 –1: European Free ...
It was the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first European Parliament election after Brexit. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] A total of 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent more than 450 million people from 27 member states .
The United Kingdom’s decision to hand the center-left Labour Party a parliamentary majority comes at the same time Europe is broadly in the grip of what some call a right-wing populist surge.
The year 2024 is notable for the large number of elections that were held worldwide: 64 countries from around the world, [2] home to nearly half of the global population, [3] voted, including eight of the world's 10 most populous nations – Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Pakistan, Russia, and the United States; in addition, the ...
The first July election in a lifetime will have some significant effects on travellers – specifically those people who are now required to be in the UK for the campaign and/or the polling day ...
President of Sinn Féin Mary Lou McDonald was the first high-profile politician affected by the spread of COVID-19, with her party cancelling events and her family entering self-isolation for a period, after McDonald confirmed on 2 March that her children attended the same school as the student with the first recorded case of COVID-19 in Ireland.