The two main groups in the European Parliament each lose many seats: the conservatives lose 38, the social-democrats lose 36, following the European elections. The Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) group, buoyed by the success of the RN in France, gains 21 seats.
A more fragmented European Parliament with no clear majority is emerging. The two major groups in the European Parliament, the European People’s Party (EPP) and the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D), obtain 179 and 150 seats respectively out of 751 in the European elections, on Sunday, May 26, according to estimates by Kantar Public for the European Parliament.
Before this election, the EPP held 217 seats and the S&D 186. They thus each lose 44 and 39 seats, while the Europe of Nations and Freedom (ENF) group, which includes Members of the European Parliament from the National Rally (RN), wins 58 seats, 21 more than in the previous legislature (37 seats). The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), the centrist liberal group in the European Parliament, obtains 107 seats, thus becoming the third political force in Strasbourg and Brussels.
