New parties are trying to encourage young people to head to the polls ahead of the EU elections.
In Momentum’s first election for the Hungarian Parliament in April 2018, the party received 3 percent of the vote, falling short of the 5 percent required to be awarded any seats.With its 751 lawmakers, the European Parliament is one of the E.U.’s centers of power, making laws that impact the daily lives of around 508 million people in 28 countries. That’s more people than in the U.S., Canada and Mexico combined.
Volt’s strongholds are in Germany, the Netherlands, Italy and Bulgaria, though it has a presence in 13 countries in Europe. Party leaders hope to get at least 25 lawmakers elected from seven different countries.“The parties who are there now don’t have the right answers to climate change, migration, social inequality,” Cornelius Rahn, 36, the head of media relations at Volt, said. “These are all problems that can’t be solved by an individual nation.
The makeup of Parliament also skews toward middle age. The average age of lawmakers was 54 in March 2017.has increased positive feelings about the bloc across Europe, according to polls.
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