BRUSSELS: Irish voters picked up the baton on day two of marathon EU elections on Friday (Jun 7), after the Netherlands kicked off the ballot with a strong showing by the far right.
Netherlands' far-right PVV Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders receives his ballots for the European elections in a polling station, in The Hague on Jun 6, 2024, on the first day of European Parliament election. BRUSSELS: Irish voters picked up the baton on day two of marathon EU elections on Friday , after the Netherlands kicked off the ballot with a strong showing by the far right.
Polls in the Czech Republic were to open later at 1000 GMT, ahead of Sunday's main election day when most of the European Union's 27 nations - including powerhouses Germany and France - will vote. In Ireland, with around 20 per cent of the population born outside the country and record levels of asylum seekers, anti-migrant sentiment has escalated.
Support for the leftist-nationalist Sinn Fein has declined sharply, with its progressive and pro-migration stances appearing at odds with many of its core working-class voters. With an eye on the horse-trading that may be needed, von der Leyen has been courting Italian premier Giorgia Meloni, who heads the post-fascist Brothers of Italy party.
In a message to voters early Friday, Babis urged them to"expel from the European Parliament the green fanatics and the pro-migration enthusiasts who hae settled down there."were also raised in the vote run-up after Czech authorities busted a website alleged to be a Kremlin front pushing Russian propaganda.
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