The right is advancing, but the "Ursula" majority is holding out, which with 403 seats out of 720 deputies will still be able to count on a large majority in the next European Parliament .
According to the latest projection, the People's Party (EPP) should gain 184 seats . The socialists of S&D follow with 139 seats, then the liberals of Renew with 80 .
The conservatives of Ecr, the party of which Giorgia Meloni's FdI is part, stand at 73 seats, Identity and Democracy (the far-right sovereignists of which Le Pen and Salvini are part) remains at 58, then the Greens at 52 seats and the Left at 36 . The remaining 98 MEPs elected for now are not part of any large European family.
As for Italian MEPs: FdI elects 24 of them , a dizzying growth if you consider that in 2019 it elected just 5; 22 seats in the Democratic Party , 3 more than in 2019; the League loses 20 seats and brings 8 MEPs to Brussels; 8 MEPs also for M5s; Forza Italia elects 7 , one less than the League despite the better result, because the calculation is made on the basis of the constituencies and is not a pure proportional system at national level; finally, Avs elects 6 MEPs .
A majority equal to that of the last five years should therefore be confirmed in the European Parliament, it remains to be seen whether the three parties will support Von der Leyen's encore at the helm of the Commission.
(Unioneonline/L)