So Sumar’s (Spanish party) politicians will apparently be distributed across both The Left and the Greens European parties. Presumably an image maneuver, since joining an European party usually doesn’t bind your vote, and Spanish green parties usually get integrated in leftist electoral options anyway.
In the Netherlands, the parties PvdA and GroenLinks have started working together very closely, participating in elections with combined lists. They did the same for the EP elections, but had the challenge that PvdA was part of S&D, whereas GroenLinks was part of the Greens.
They went for the same solution: half the list (the PvdA part) will join S&D, and half (the GroenLinks part) will join the Greens. They will align their votes, though.
The way I interpret that, is that it’ll be easier to influence the Greens (since it’s a smaller group and thus GroenLinks is a larger part of it), but if the S&D position can be swayed, it’ll have more effect. And in general, both parties presumably aren’t that far from their group’s stances anyway.
Yeah, which seems a bit of a hassle, given that there’s only two possible opinions one could have on any given matter. Don’t know why they bother with more than two parties, really.
Polls predicted both to be at around 8 seats. Exit polls have PVV at 7, Labour-Greens at 8, with a margin of error of 1. So pretty much what was expected.
Whether one or the other is larger is mostly irrelevant, as that only pertains to the Dutch share of seats in the European Parliament - there are way more seats to be assigned, and there will not be an absolute majority for anyone anyway.
"So will your party join The Left or The Greens in the European Parliament?" "Yes." (sh.itjust.works)
So Sumar’s (Spanish party) politicians will apparently be distributed across both The Left and the Greens European parties. Presumably an image maneuver, since joining an European party usually doesn’t bind your vote, and Spanish green parties usually get integrated in leftist electoral options anyway.
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