# EU elections 23-26 May 2019 **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 4, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476 "2019-05-04T18:57:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yellow\_sausage\_bandit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yellow_sausage_bandit/32/394_2.png) [@yellow\_sausage\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellow_sausage_bandit)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/1 "2019-05-04T18:57:27Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/2 "2019-05-05T09:18:07Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/3 "2019-05-05T10:01:09Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![kk\_fusion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kk_fusion/32/15276_2.png) [@kk\_fusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kk_fusion)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/4 "2019-05-05T19:12:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Malden\_Capell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malden_capell/32/5274_2.png) [@Malden\_Capell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malden_Capell)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/5 "2019-05-05T21:34:29Z")
1. UK 2. Liberal Democrat 3. ALDE 4. I’m voting for the solidly remain party, and for Catherine Bearder specifically. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/6 "2019-05-06T02:16:06Z")
So is it settled now that there will be EU elections in the UK? ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/7 "2019-05-06T03:04:01Z")
> [@Northern\_Piper](#): > > So is it settled now that there will be EU elections in the UK? 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 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/8 "2019-05-06T08:57:05Z")
> [@yellow\_sausage\_bandit](#): > > 2 Which party you will vote for > > … > 2 Vlaams Belang ( far right Flemish nationalists) :eek: :eek: I’ve just looked them up on [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlaams_Belang). ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/9 "2019-05-06T14:09:56Z")
Absolutely. > [@yellow\_sausage\_bandit](#): > > 1 Belgium > 2 Vlaams Belang ( far right Flemish nationalists) > 3 Europe of Nations and Freedom > 4 They’re anti-EU 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. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/10 "2019-05-06T14:19:28Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/11 "2019-05-06T15:47:28Z")
> [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#): > > I kind of suspect that you opened this thread only to boast about this. “Far right Flemish nationalists”, yeah right. Look them up on Wikipedia as I did (click the link I posted above) and be unpleasantly surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/les_espaces_du_sommeil/32/308_2.png) [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/12 "2019-05-06T15:50:47Z")
I know _very well_ who they are hence my post. Sorry if I wasn’t clear. ---
**Author:** ![polar\_bear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ec9cab/32.png) [@polar\_bear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/polar_bear)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/13 "2019-05-06T21:59:11Z")
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 Verstuurd vanaf mijn moto g(6) met Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![yellow\_sausage\_bandit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yellow_sausage_bandit/32/394_2.png) [@yellow\_sausage\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yellow_sausage_bandit)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/14 "2019-05-07T13:27:04Z")
> [@Les\_Espaces\_Du\_Sommeil](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Shine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr_shine/32/464_2.png) [@Mr\_Shine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Shine)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/15 "2019-05-07T13:37:15Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Wrenching\_Spanners](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecb155/32.png) [@Wrenching\_Spanners](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wrenching_Spanners)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/16 "2019-05-07T15:36:16Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2019, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eu-elections-23-26-may-2019/833476/17 "2019-05-07T16:23:26Z")
> [@Mr\_Shine](#): > > 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. 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.