EP elections 2014 - Results Thread

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Sweden is projected to have increased turn-out compared to 2009. It's estimated it'll be over 50% turn-out for the first time in a EP election over here.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

If Fredrik Reinfeldt hadn't been the incumbent PM (and it wan's a bit too late to rock the boat before the General Election) yesterday's catastrophic results might have very well have sent him packing.

If (and they probably will) the Liberal-Democrats receive a bad beating in 2015, all he'll be remembered for is as a failure. That's not much of a future for him.

It's a hard business, politics. It's a very thin and delicate line between becoming a hero and a laughing-stock.   

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Yepp.

Maybe the EAF gets the Sweden Democrats back on board somehow ...

Unlikely, some of the parties in there are a bit too controversial for them, I think.

I'm not really sure why UKIP are so negative towards SD. They're by no means more radical than the Danish People's Party, so if they can be accepted in EFD, and even ECR I'm not sure why Ferage has a problem with SD. Besides, if the Danes and Finns leave for ECR, won't EFD have to find new people to cooperate with in order to reach the 7 countries requirement?

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Looks like SD's chances of joining EFD is all of a sudden looking up.

[Swedish Rainbow Capitalist Cheese]

Really, all this backroom talk is nuts - bring on the direct popular vote for President and transform the Commission into some kind of Senate that we are directly electing as well.

You seem to be under the illusion that the Union is some sort of democratic project. Backroom talk is the foundation on which its existence stands on. The Parliament is only there to give some sort democratic credentials and not actually wield any real power, and considering what sorts of results we get in those elections, it's not something that anyone sane actually wants to change. Commissioner Le Pen, that'd be one for the history books.

Also, the commission is the executive branch of the EU, so it would be strange to make that the Senate. Council of Minister would be the the more obvious parallel I think.