While we wait for the first estimates for France shortly, the extreme right registers significant percentages In Germanywith the AfD in second place, ahead of Olaf Soltz’s SPD.
Chancellor Olaf Solz’s Social Democrats towards third place, according to exit poll data in Germany. The Christian Democrat CDU/CSU is on track to get up to 30% of the vote and the far-right AfD is expected to get 16-16.5%, with the SPD far behind on 14%.
The two main Alternative for Germany (AfD) candidates in the European Union elections have been involved in a series of scandals involving alleged espionage and possible Russian influence. More recently, however, the party’s main candidate, Maximilian Kra, was forced to stop campaigning after he defended members of Hitler’s SS, saying that “not all of them were criminals”.
However, despite the party’s recent problems, the AfD is expected to finish in second place, with around 16%, according to current forecasts. This represents a gain of more than 5 percentage points compared to the 2019 European elections.
At the same time, it makes things “difficult” for Ursula von der Leyen, as Solz’s fall could lead her to look for other alliances.
The FPO’s imminent victory in Austria is also significant as it looks to get 27%.
On the contrary, with around half of the votes counted in Belgium, the far right does not seem to be able to achieve the victory it expected.
The conservative separatist New Flemish Alliance is in first place in both the Belgian federal elections (26.7%) and the regional elections in Flanders (25.2%) – putting it ahead of the far-right Vlaams Belang (21st and 22nd respectively). %).
A dead silence fell over the place where Belang met, in the small town of Londerzeel.
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