Although traditional mainstream parties were the chief casualty of the pan-European vote that took place over four days, gains by the EU-bashing far right were largely offset by victories on the left.
and Labor parties were far outpolled by the newly created Brexit Party, which is determined to have the country leave the European Union with or without a deal.
In Austria, the conservative party of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz won the largest share of votes, but his government was toppled Monday when the far-right Freedom Party, previously allied with him, joined in aKurz last week ejected the Freedom Party from his governing coalition after scandal erupted over a video that appeared to show one of its leaders, the country’s vice chancellor, offering to sell political favors to a woman posing as a wealthy Russian.
Analysts said that based on so narrow a loss, Macron was unlikely to accede to Le Pen’s demand for a dissolution of France’s Parliament. Salvini’s League was the runaway winner in Italy, garnering more than one-third of the vote, but his strong showing did not give much of a lift to his partners elsewhere. In Hungary, Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s authoritarian-minded party garnered an easy win, but Orban has not committed to joining Salvini’s coalition in the European Parliament.
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