Some call it a “political earthquake”, while others consider it a trend to be observed in Europe for a longer time.
It still won’t be enough to have a majority, but far-right, populist and “anti-European” parties will see record gains in the next European Parliament elections.
Moreover, the two main mainstream parties, the People’s Party and the Socialists, will not have a majority together.
This follows from the analysis of the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), a think tank based in Germany, which was published last week.
The experts were based on available public opinion polls, but also on possible transfers of individual parties between factions. Slovakia found itself in the category of countries where there is a risk that “populist, anti-European or far-right parties” will win the majority in the European elections. Apparently, they also include Smer and SNS.
Elections to the European Parliament are scheduled in all member countries for June 6 to 9 this year (Saturday, June 8 in Slovakia).
(Graphs of how the distribution of power in the European Parliament will change, below in the article)
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