“Tens of millions of Europeans in 21 countries are voting Sunday [today] in the European Parliamentary election in a continent-wide battle between euroskeptic populists and proponents of closer EU unity.”
French leader Emmanuel Macron “whose country has been rocked in recent months by the populist yellow vest movement, has called the elections ‘the most important since 1979 because the (European) Union is facing an existential risk’ from nationalists seeking to divide the bloc.” Meanwhile in France, over 254 convicted Islamic terrorists are set for release from various prisons by 2022. Important news for EU citizens to ponder on election day along with the over 250 people that have been murdered in jihad attacks in France since 2015, and over 900 injured. Let’s hope French citizens and other populations across the EU have woken up enough to save their continent from rapidly advancing Islamization and the subsequent disastrous outcome.
“Turnout up in France as 21 countries vote in knife-edge EU poll”, France 24, May 26, 2019:
Tens of millions of Europeans in 21 countries are voting Sunday in the European Parliamentary election in a continent-wide battle between euroskeptic populists and proponents of closer EU unity.
Greece, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania and Cyprus were the first to open their polling stations at 0400 GMT.
In mainland France, turnout stood at 19.3% at midday, up from 15.7% in 2014.
Seven EU member states have already voted, and provisional results will be released late on Sunday once the rest of the union has taken part in the European parliamentary election.
Eurosceptic parties opposed to the project of ever closer union hope to capture as many as a third of the seats in the 751-member Strasbourg assembly, disrupting the pro-integration consensus.
France mirrors battle across Europe
France’s President Emmanuel Macron has taken it upon himself to act as figurehead for the centrist and liberal parties hoping to shut the nationalists out of key EU jobs and decision-making.
Macron, whose country has been rocked in recent months by the populist yellow vest movement, has called the elections “the most important since 1979 because the (European) Union is facing an existential risk” from nationalists seeking to divide the bloc.
“Once again Macron is daring us to challenge him. Well let’s take him at his word: On May 26, we’ll challenge him in the voting booth,” far-right National Rally leader Marine Le Pen told a rally in France on Friday….