EP elections 2014

[Middle-aged Europe]

Bütikofer didn't run in the primary though.

[Velasco]

Jaime Mayor Oreja, PP spokesman in the EP, will not stand in next elections:

 http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/01/27/inenglish/1390834252_130242.html

Alejo Vidal-Quadras, another PP hardliner, announced that he's going to leave the party:

http://elpais.com/elpais/2014/01/27/inenglish/1390820473_322320.html

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[Middle-aged Europe]

José Bové and Ska Keller win Green primary.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Green primary results

Ska Keller 11,791
José Bové 11,726
Rebecca Harms 8,170
Monica Frassoni 5,851

Turnout: 22,676


It was an online primary where everybody from the age of 16 was allowed to vote. Obviously the 32-year-old candidate wins this.

Anyway, let's see what ramifications this has for the nomination of the German candidate list next week with regards to a Keller vs. Harms rematch.

[Tender Branson]

Is this the result for Germany only, or for the whole EU ?

22.676 seems extremely low for Germany, not to mention the EU ...

[Yeahsayyeah]

It seems to be the result for the whole EU.

[Middle-aged Europe]

Is this the result for Germany only, or for the whole EU ?

22.676 seems extremely low for Germany, not to mention the EU ...

The whole EU. And yes, it is low.

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/geringe-beteiligung-bei-gruenen-urwahl-zu-europa-spitzenkandidatur-a-945792.html

[Tender Branson]

Is this the result for Germany only, or for the whole EU ?

22.676 seems extremely low for Germany, not to mention the EU ...

The whole EU. And yes, it is low.

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/geringe-beteiligung-bei-gruenen-urwahl-zu-europa-spitzenkandidatur-a-945792.html

Well, understandable though:

If I didn't read it here that the Euro-Greens had an online-primary, I wouldn't have known either.

And I consider myself very interested in the EP elections.

The average voter on the other hand ...

[Filuwaúrdjan]

People don't give a sh!t about Euro elections, see.

[joevsimp]

I'm  a Green party member in the UK and I didn't have a clue about this. (I still don't, what's going on?)

[Middle-aged Europe]

I'm  a Green party member in the UK and I didn't have a clue about this. (I still don't, what's going on?)

Ska Keller and José Bové are your leading candidates for the European parliament elections.

http://europeangreens.eu/news/press-release-greens-select-leading-candidates

[Middle-aged Europe]

Green primary winner Ska Keller has officially announced her candidacy for position no. 1 on the German Green list thus challenging European parliamentary group leader Rebecca Harms.

And Keller not being nominated would automatically trigger Sven Giegold's challenge against European party chairman Reinhard Bütikofer on position no. 1

Yay, anarchy!

[afleitch]

ICM have polled Scotland FWIW;

SNP 43
LAB 24
CON 14
UKIP 7
LIBDEM 6

[Gustaf]

Guy Verhofstads makes what might be the worst campaign video I've ever seen for a real, major politician: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AhTyRAnGAg

Must see.

[Tender Branson]

New Gallup/Ö24 poll for the EP elections (chart at the bottom of the picture):

[freefair]

Team Stronach's existance seems to have no purpose. Seems like a Merger with NEOS and BZO would be a good choice, to create a truly liberal party.

[joevsimp]

I'm  a Green party member in the UK and I didn't have a clue about this. (I still don't, what's going on?)

Ska Keller and José Bové are your leading candidates for the European parliament elections.

http://europeangreens.eu/news/press-release-greens-select-leading-candidates

in what way, for a pan-european campaign that the british greens have nothing to do with?

I thought Daniel Cohn Bendit was the supreme leader of the Euro-Verts

[Middle-aged Europe]

I'm  a Green party member in the UK and I didn't have a clue about this. (I still don't, what's going on?)

Ska Keller and José Bové are your leading candidates for the European parliament elections.

http://europeangreens.eu/news/press-release-greens-select-leading-candidates

in what way, for a pan-european campaign that the british greens have nothing to do with?

I thought Daniel Cohn Bendit was the supreme leader of the Euro-Verts

Daniel Cohn-Bendit is one of the two co-leaders of the European Parliament group of the Greens, along with Rebecca Harms. But Cohn-Bendit plans to retire after this election anyway.


On January 18, one of the Green primary debates with the four candidates was held in London:

http://london.greenparty.org.uk/news/2013/11/10/europe-wide-green-primary-launches,-with-london-greens-to-host-hustings/

And back in November, Ska Keller was endorsed by the Green Party of England and Wales and José Bové was endorsed by the Scottish Green Party:

http://europeangreens.eu/news/bov%C3%A9-frassoni-harms-and-keller-contend-green-primary


So I gather attempts by your Green Party to mobilize members were pretty much non-existent? At least the German Greens tried to e-mail all their members via newsletters and mailing lists. But maybe nobody read that either.

[Ilùvatar]

Holy mother of God, if I only could have found this thread earlier i would have not done the whole projection by myself.

Well, since it's too late for that I'm going to share it with you guys, I still haven't found polls for some smaller country but I'm going to integrate my data with the data in this thread.

https ://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkADU7ryrSQedFRDSTZ6bzZyZnpVU1pHNkVnc2FwS1E&usp=drive_web#gid=21

(remove the space after https)

In the hidden columns in each table there is the allocation system method (mostly d'Hondt) used by that particular country. I still need polls for:

Cyprus
Estonia
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxemburg
Slovenia

[palandio]

There's an Italian website that is collecting EP polls for all countries:
http://scenaripolitici.com/

[Ilùvatar]

There's an Italian website that is collecting EP polls for all countries:

That's great, now I only need the projections for Luxemburg and Cyprus.

[palandio]

Cyprus and Slovenia will follow on February 6 (hopefully there exist some polls). For Luxembourg they didn't find any EP poll so far.

[MaxQue]

For Luxemburg, I suppose using the October elections result is better than nothing.

[Tender Branson]

Team Stronach's existance seems to have no purpose. Seems like a Merger with NEOS and BZO would be a good choice, to create a truly liberal party.

Is NEOS not liberal enough for you ?



Besides, TS and BZÖ should just die, ASAP if you ask me - and not merge with anyone.

[Ilùvatar]

Done!
Tell me if you find some error, the extended data is here

docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AkADU7ryrSQedFRDSTZ6bzZyZnpVU1pHNkVnc2FwS1E&usp=drive_web#gid=44
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	EPP	S&D	ALDE	GUE-NGL	Greens-EFA	EAF	EFD	ECR	NI	Total
Germany	42	26	3	8	10		7			96
France	18	15	9	7	6	19				74
UK	22	26	6		5		14			73
Italy	24	29							20	73
Spain	20	18	5	9	2					54
Poland	15	9	3		4			20		51
Romania	8	15	6						3	32
Netherlands	9	4	4	4		5				26
Portugal	8	9		4						21
Hungary	11	8				2				21
Greece	8	1		10		2				21
Czech Republic	3	5		4			2	7		21
Belgium	3	5	4		8	1				21
Sveden	6	8	1	1	2	2				20
Austria	4	5	2		2	5				18
Bulgaria	6	7	3			1				17
Slovakia	5	7	1							13
Finland	3	2	4	1	1		2			13
Denmark		3	5	2			3			13
Lithuania	2	4	3				2			11
Ireland	4	1	3	3						11
Croatia	4	5		2						11
Slovenia	5	2	1							8
Latvia	2	3			2			1		8
Malta	3	3								6
Luxemburg	3	2	1							6
Estonia	2		4							6
Cyprus	3	1		2						6
Total	243	223	68	57	42	37	30	28	23	751