EU elections 23-26 May 2019

Politics & Elections
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General discussion of EU elections

For EU citizens:

1 Your country
2 Which party you will vote for
3 Which EU parliamentary faction they belong to
4 Why?

Me:

1 Belgium
2 Vlaams Belang ( far right Flemish nationalists)
3 Europe of Nations and Freedom
4 They’re anti-EU

2

I’ll play along

1 UK
2 Green
3 Green/ European Free Alliance
4 Environmental issues have to be taken with a far more radical seriousness than any of the other parties is showing; normally I’d be voting Labour, but if we’re leaving the EU and its Parliament, my vote at least indicates I’ve had enough of Labour’s shilly-shallying on the EU issue, moreover I don’t think Labour are radical enough in their push for a new socio-economic direction - and that it’s always been too traditionally “economistic” in its instincts

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  1. UK
  2. I vote for candidates, not parties and I haven’t seen the candidate lists yet. (The party list system used here is a major beef I have with the EU elections but that’s for another thread.)
  3. Ditto.
  4. I always vote.
4
  1. France
  2. Probably En Marche (Macron’s party)
  3. Liberal and Democratic Alliance for Europe
  4. Basically to take a stand against the Front National. I don’t care much for EM nationally, but they seem clearly pro-Europe, which is what matters these days.
5
  1. UK
  2. Liberal Democrat
  3. ALDE
  4. I’m voting for the solidly remain party, and for Catherine Bearder specifically.
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So is it settled now that there will be EU elections in the UK?

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Not 100%, but about 99%, that elections will take place on May 23rd. The PM hopes that she can pass a deal before the UK cohort take their seats on June 30th, but well :smiley:

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:eek: :eek:

I’ve just looked them up on Wikipedia.

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Absolutely.

I kind of suspect that you opened this thread only to boast about this. “Far right Flemish nationalists”, yeah right.

Since I can’t prove it, I’ll just refrain from contributing.

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1 Spain
2 TBD, I have to see the actual lists. I can tell you who it’s not going to be (not independentists, not one-item parties, etc.), but not sure on who will it actually be.
3 TBD, but likely to be in ALDE
4 I’m looking for social-democratic pan-europeists. The kind who, while being a bunch of thieves, do keep things running.

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Look them up on Wikipedia as I did (click the link I posted above) and be unpleasantly surprised.

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I know very well who they are hence my post. Sorry if I wasn’t clear.

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That’s why I have stopped myself from participating in this thread. 14 milion scenarios and only this way will I escape without a warning for manhandling the op

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I opened this thread mainly because I wanted to see some discussion about the 2nd largest democratic elections in the world. And I’m voting VB because I don’t want to live in a neoliberal superstate dominated by Germany and France.

I’ll be voting Greens in the Belgian/Flemish elections on the same day btw.

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1 UK
2 Brexit
3 Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy
4 The only thing UK MEPs should be doing is promoting their own obsolescence. It’s a disgrace these elections are even happening.

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  1. UK
  2. At this point, I’m probably voting for a raft of Independents.
  3. N/A
  4. I looked through the list of parties, and basically want to vote against them all. I’m anti-May, anti-Farage, anti-UKIP, very anti-Corbyn, against a second referendum and suspect the other minnows on the London list are pretty left-wing.
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Wow, how did I ever miss this aspect of Mr Shine?

For my part…
1 UK
2 Likely Green (subject to local candidates)
3 I don’t follow the EU political factions
4 I will at this point only vote for a firmly pro-EU party (my long standing Labour support has been stretched beyond its limits), and I have a growing admiration for the work and principles of the Green Party.