Christian Democrats and social Democrats in Europe – behind it, very different results are hidden in the individual States. An Overview of the forecasts and projections.

France

In an extremely tight race have repeated the right-wing populists of Marine Le Pen in her victory in the European elections. Le pen, and the Rassemblement National (RN) according to first forecasts to around 24 percent of the vote, while the party La République en Marche by President Emmanuel Macron scored about 22 to 23 percent. Place the Greens ended up surprisingly in front of the conservative Republicans of Ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy. Le pen’s previous National Front party, had also won the 2014 European election.

Greece

In Greece the conservative Nea Demokratia party is located according to calculations far ahead of the government party Syriza. The Conservatives were then about 33 percent of the vote, ten percentage points more than in the previous European election. The ruling Syriza party of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives, according to the extrapolation to 24 percent of the votes and nine percentage points behind the conservative opposition party.

The Conservative values as the clear Signal for a change of power. Your party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis called on in the evening the head of government Tsipras to resign and called for new elections. About early parliamentary elections had been speculated in the last few days in Greece. No later than October you will need to take place on a regular basis. Michael Lehmann, ARD-Studio, Athens

Österreich

in Spite of “Ibiza-scandal” and the consequent collapse of the government coalition of the ÖVP Chancellor Sebastian emerged Shortly as the clear winner from the election, and repeated according to the forecasts, with approximately 34 percent, more than seven percentage points more than in 2014. The FPÖ came to around 17 percent – a Minus compared to 2014 of around two percent. The social-democratic SPÖ could not benefit from the internal political turmoil, and was around 23 percent, far behind the ÖVP. The Greens on 13 per cent and the liberal Neos to eight.