Large pro-European groups –people’s, social democrats and liberals This Sunday they confirmed their majority in the European Parliament, although with fewer seats than the polls gave them and the ones they had in the electoral chamber.Far right and ultra-conservatives confirmed their progress throughout Europe.

The European People’s Party won 189 seats. and will remain the first community force, while the Alliance of European Socialists and Democrats (S&D) will become the second group with 135 MEPs, and the Liberals will retain their third place, despite losing a fifth of their representatives and retaining 83 seats.

The current President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen extended her hand to Social Democrats and liberals – with whom it has 407 seats in the 720-seat European Parliament – to try to reach an agreement to create a new pro-European majority for the next five years in the community legislature.

Both Social Democrats and Liberals were ready to achieve this majority, whose first task will be to confirm the candidate for the presidency of the European Commission, whom heads of state and government will nominate in the coming weeks, a position for which she herself is the favorite. Von der Leyen.

In the outgoing European Parliament, these three groups made up 59% of MEPs. space, which has now been reduced to 56.5%.

To achieve a more comfortable majority, they could open up to the Greens, who in 2019 they abstained from the elections the current President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, but they ultimately voted with the majority in many cases.

Environmental group having lost a quarter of their seats, This Sunday he began to act “responsibly and constructively” to achieve a “stable majority”.

This was stated by the director of the IE Center for Global Policy, Ilke Toygur, in a statement to EFE What The situation is “better” than polls predicted. and he also emphasized the Greens’ willingness to work with this pro-European majority, although he acknowledged the “leaning” of the whole House to the right.

However, Pavel Zerka, an analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations, noted that the results of these elections indicate the existence of a political climate favorable to the right; After years of successive crises, “the center right is creating a more convincing image of European realism, and the dissatisfied are leaning toward the far right,” he noted.

Ultra-conservatives, nationalists and Europhobes are the big winners. of the day, as a reflection of the upward trends that have been observed in some Member States in recent years, such as Italy, and as a thermometer of what will happen in the upcoming national elections, as in the case of France or Germany.

Conservatives and reformists (ECR) achieved 72 places and the far-right Identity and Democracy parties signed up 58 seats, Both are waiting for related parties, who currently lack a European political family, to enter talks to expand their ranks in the coming weeks.

Joined the European People’s Party. Three groups take 319 seats. to which new factions could be added, not tied to any political family of the community, but linked to the ideas of the far right, such as the Alternative for Germany or Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz.

It means that popular Europeans will now have the key to the majority that until now the liberals have been of the opinion that the center of the European Parliament is shifting to the right, and it will be they who will take over to work with this pro-European majority or, when it suits them, to form a random alternative majority.

European Parliament Groups They may begin to be discussed as early as this Monday. and a minimum of 23 MEPs from seven member states is required: existing groups can remain or disappear, and add or lose new members.

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There may be changes in the composition of groups throughout the legislature, but those formed for the first plenary meeting of the European Chamber will be able to exert their influence on the ground to get, for example, vice-presidents of the institution.

Among the great unknowns that arise during these negotiations are: future configuration of the parliamentary far rightwho could try to come together as a single group to coordinate efforts, increase influence and access more resources and funding.

(EFE)