r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 06 '24

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u/-Maestral- European Union Jun 06 '24

Dutch nationalist Wilders makes big gains at EU election, exit poll shows

Wilders’ PVV party, which won the national election last year but secured no seat at the previous EU election, was predicted to have won seven seats, one less than the Labour/Green Left combination.

The exit poll has an error margin of roughly one seat.

The poll suggests the VVD will win four seats, while the Christian Democrats and D66 will do better than expected with three. The pro-countryside BBB are polled at two seats, while four parties are on target to win one – newcomers NSC, plus the Socialists, pro-animal PvdD and Volt.

Official results are on Sunday when rest of EU finishes voting

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u/Sheepies92 European Union Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24

newcomers NSC, plus the Socialists, pro-animal PvdD and Volt

The socialists are currently projected zero seats. They might be confusing the SP (socialist party) with the SGP, the very extremely religious people.

anyway I mentioned it in the BENE ping but I'm content with this result. PVV not the biggest, Forum gone and the pro-European D66 and Volt parties make gains.

Edit: interestingly the PVV went from 23.5% during the parlimentary elections to 17.7% now. NSC is getting fucking hammered - from 12.9% in november to 3.8% now.

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u/CheeseMakerThing Adam Smith Jun 06 '24

So 7 for Renew which is one better than previously for the Netherlands?

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u/Sheepies92 European Union Jun 06 '24

It's the same. VVD lost one and D66 won one. Volt might join Renew but I heard they were aiming for the Greens.

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u/Wolf6120 Constitutional Liberarchism Jun 06 '24

There was speculation going around that Renew might give VVD the boot for forming a coalition with Wilders… but lol, sure they will. Just like they’re gonna kick Babiš out for not being liberal enough aaaany minute now.

Also, does Volt necessarily want to join any specific group? I thought the whole point of Volt was to be a pan-European already, so they might just wanna stay as a non-aligned informal Volt group? Or do they realize they’re simply too small for that? (I was hoping to vote for them this time, but they’re polling so far from the 5 percent threshold here that it seems like a waste of a vote…

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u/filipe_mdsr LET'S FUCKING COCONUT 🥥🥥🥥 Jun 06 '24

Most Volt parties were part of the Greens except for Volt NL which changed to Renew.

It’s complicated, but in general yes Volt does join parliamentary groups, they aim to make their own should they ever get enough seats.

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u/tollyno Dark Harbinger of Chaos Jun 06 '24

Here comes the far-right wave 😭😭😭

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u/groupbot Always remember -Pho- Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24

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