Conservatives Score Major Wins In EU Elections

The is tide turning.

EU Parliament: Conservative parties ID and ECR gained seats (4 and 9 respectively), while the far left parties suffered stinging defeat: the Greens party lost 18 seats and Renew (France) lost 23 seats.  

Some good news: the tide is turning in Europe.

This past March I was on a rooftop in Rome talking with various conservative leaders from around Europe about the biggest issues mobilizing voters in their respective countries. Immigration, immigration, immigration. Inflation. Land. Sovereignty. The responses were the same from all. Attendees included Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, Flanders’s Gerolf Annemans, President of the EU’s Identity and Democracy group Marco Zanni, and other ID members.

European leftists are nothing more than mathematically illiterate socialists masquerading behind a cheap veneer of a false enlightenment. They present any sensible reform respecting border security and currency strength as tantamount to Hitler part deux. Voters started the course correction this past week with the first EU elections held since the pandemic and Brexit. The results decide the fate of the 27-member nation EU over the next five years and which of the 720 members of its parliament will battle over EU legislation. Ursula von deer Leyen is the current President of the European Commission and is expected to retain her seat, but not without some dealmaking.

Germany and France suffered the biggest leftist defeats. “A disaster,” said critics of Germany’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Young Germans are ditching the Greens. Austria’s Freedom Party doubled their seats. Greece’s conservative party held its ground. Meanwhile in France, Emmanuel Macron announced a snap election late last night and dissolved the French parliament in a last ditch effort to mitigate further losses in France’s forthcoming parliamentary elections. “Obliterated,” said the headlines of Macron’s Renew party. The losses suffered by Macron’s group aren’t surprising, they were predictable. Opposition to Macron and his Renew party, fueled by unmanageable immigration, taxes, agricultural policy, and “climate change,” continues building and cost Macron’s party 30 of France’s 81 seats — seats that went to the National Rally led by Marine Le Pen. The National Rally party took 32% of the EU Parliament vote dwarfing Macron’s meager 14%. France’s presidential seat isn’t on the ballot until 2027, but the National Rally party has the French legislature and a full bench of young, digital-ready leaders.

Elsewhere, Belgium’s far-left Prime Minister, Alexander De Croo resigned after a disastrous electoral defeat. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni remains the conservative powerhouse in the EU with her party taking 28% of the country’s vote, up from 26% in 2022. In Spain, right-leaning groups expanded their representation by claiming multiple seats; its Citizens Party, which began an electoral collapse last year, is all but done.

Conservatives are encroaching on the progressive’s EU stronghold — and they’re building on their victories each election. The U.S. should celebrate patriots in ally countries taking back their governments from the Marxist left.

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