During the night of this Sunday June 9we Spaniards have known the counting of votes that citizens have issued throughout this electoral journey. At stake were the seats of the European Parliament, which will make legislative and budgetary decisions affecting the European Union for the next five years. In Spain, the vote has ended with a victory of the Popular Party with 22 MEPsfollowed by PSOEwith twentyand with Vox closing the podium with 6.
However, the election results they have given for much more than can be understood from the result at first glance. Something for which, from Infobae Spain, we have wanted to bring together various graphics that help grasp what has happened in these elections that will mark the future of Europe.
Tonight’s results in Spain have ended with Dolors Montserrat, PP candidate, as the head of the list with the most votes. She, along with the next 21 colleagues on the list of the party led by Alberto Núñez Feijóo, will arrive in Brussels with the confidence of having been the force with the most votes. There they will meet other formations in a similar position. If what the polls indicate comes true, this will be the case of National identitythe French party led by Marine Le Penwhose more than predictable victory has led Macron to bring forward the national elections.
It is not the only place where the extreme right will triumph. In Germany everything indicates that they will have positioned themselves as the second most voted forceand In Austria and the Netherlands, ultra groups have received the most votes. In fact, with the victory of the right in Spain and the loss of strength of socialism in Portugalonly Romania aims to have a left-wing party as the most voted.
With this rise of the right and the extreme right, the formations that have gained the most strength in the Brussels Parliament are the European People’s Partywhere for example the PPand the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists, where the seats of Vox along with those from other formations such as Giorgia Meloni in Italy. He Identity and Democracy PartyOn the other hand, where would it be? Marie Le Penloses support, although that does not prevent them from consolidating their influence and achieving key results in both France and Germany.
In fact, thanks to these results it has been possible to see Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission who aspires to get enough votes to renew his mandatemeet with various leaders of the right and the extreme right, at the expense of those on the other side of the political spectrum, such as Socialists and Democrats either the Green Groupthat They have lost many seats compared to 2019.
Since the European Parliament is made up of representatives of all European citizens, it is logical to assume that the seats spread between politicians from all countries. This, in part, is true, but on the one hand, we must bear in mind that the duty of MEPs is be accountable to all citizens of the Union and not only to that of their country of origin, and that, in addition, the distribution of seats in the European Courts It is unequal between different countries.
In this way, especially relevant are the results of Germany and France, for example, which with 96 and 81 seats they have the most influential results of these elections, since between the two they bring together almost 25% of the deputies who will be in the European Chamber – in total, 720 this 2024-. Spain is not far behind, since it is the fourth country with the most reserved seats, with 61, behind Italy, with 76. Thus, the results of these four countries define about 44% of the possible votes in Parliament, which have also seen their impact increased after the departure from the United Kingdom in 2020 due to Brexit.
The definitive data for all countries is not yet known, but the stake is always a key element in all elections. In Spain, for example, it is usually a significant figure for the left -almost always- have a chance of winning, since statistically right-wing voters tend to be more ‘loyal’ at the time of depositing your ballot. This year, it seems that the participation in Spain will drop considerably -almost 10 points, for now- compared to 2019but it will still continue above -four points- the results obtained in 2014.
In the same way, it can be seen that, at a historical level, Spain is not a country that has great figures in terms of participation in the elections to the European Parliament, lower than in countries like Denmark either Germanyand above all how Belgiumwhere the Cortes are located and the percentage of participation always around 90%.
