Europe Elects

Feb 25, 2024 | euractiv.com | Roman Broszkowski |Europe Elects

As Belarus gears up for its first elections since 2020, conditions for a democratic vote do not exist, with the regime of incumbent President Aleksandr Lukashenko using all available methods to keep voters under control. Belarus will hold legislative elections on Sunday (25 February), and Belaya Rus’ — the party most aligned with the country’s incumbent authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko — will likely expand its majority.

Jan 29, 2024 | euractiv.com | Charles Szumski |Europe Elects

The two favourites in the Finnish presidential elections, former centre-right prime minister Alexander Stubbs and former Green foreign minister Pekka Haavisto will go to a second round on 11 February, while EU commissioner Jutta Urpilainen crashed out with just 4.4%, blaming her defeat in part on the European Commission’s rules on the candidacy of commissioners. As expected in the polls, two favourites in the Finnish presidential election will face each other in a second round.

Nov 30, 2023 | euractiv.com | Sarantis Michalopoulos |Tobias Gerhard Schminke |Europe Elects

European far-right political forces have reached a record high just a few months before the EU elections, according to a new poll by Europe Elects seen by Euractiv before its publication later on Thursday. If EU elections were to be held today, anti-EU far-right political parties, which have united under the umbrella of the “Identity and Democracy” (ID) group in the EU Parliament, would win 87 out of 705 seats ( they currently hold 60 seats).

Nov 16, 2023 | euractiv.com | Max Griera |Europe Elects

Portugal’s Socialists continue to lose ground ahead of national elections on 10 March, with the centre-right opposition leading the polls but needing the strengthened far-right to govern, according to Euractiv’s November projections following a high-level corruption probe.

Nov 13, 2023 | euractiv.com | Tobias Gerhard Schminke |Europe Elects

Austria’s far-right FPÖ (ID Group), which has maintained its lead over other parties for a year now, is currently on track to become the country’s strongest party in the national elections set for autumn next year. Polls suggest the party would win about 29% if an election were held today – 13 points stronger than their 2021 election result. This means the party would beat its 1999 record of 26.9%. FPÖ has defended their pole position in the polls for a year now.