EP elections 2014 - Results Thread

[Tender Branson]

The EAF has managed to form a group and will hold a press conference next week according to the general secretary of the EAF. I guess the most likely last two members are TT(Order and Justice) from Lithuania and Mikke's KNP(Congress of the New Right) from Poland. It also seems that Wilders will take up his seat in the EP, but he has complained against the ban on dual mandates to the European Court of Justice, so I guess it's only until the ban is upheld. I guess he would prefer a seat in the Dutch parliament then.
Of course, all of this also means that there is almost zero chance left for UKIP to keep the EFD group alive.

Let's see how long it holds ...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10889323/Europes-far-Right-in-crisis-as-Geert-Wilder-expresses-disgust-at-Jean-Marie-Le-Pen-comments.html

Strache (FPÖ) today has strongly criticized the senile LePen's comments as well ...

[Tender Branson]

Turns out that the Austrian outfit "EU-STOP" (which got about 2.8% of the vote) actually took legal steps to nullify & repeat the EU election (1 day before the deadline to do so ended).

One of their reasons is the case in Germany, in which a prominent German-Italian journalist admitted to voting twice in the EP election: One time in Germany and one time for Italian MEPs.

The case will now go to the Constitutional Court, which will rule within 4 weeks if their request is reviewed further or not.

http://www.tt.com/home/8527786-91/eu-wahl-von-eu-stop-angefochten.csp

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So far, only 1 election has ever went to the Constitutional Court here, in 2004.

But the candidate of the party (FPÖ) sent the formal objection after the deadline to do so had already passed, so the case was not reviewed by the Court.

Will be interesting to see what comes out of this, if anything at all.

[Tender Branson]

Looks like it will be Tusk/Mogherini after all:

http://kurier.at/politik/eu/eu-gipfel-kreis-wird-enger-bruessel-entscheidet-ueber-top-jobs/82.925.856

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/30/polish-prime-minister-donald-tusk-president-european-council

Helle Thorning-Schmidt has ruled herself out for any EU top-job.