EU Elections 2009: Economic crisis brougth anger against leftists liberals, Rigth wing parties makes gains across Europe
Exit polls suggested that voter participation would fall below 45 per cent, the lowest level since the first direct elections to the parliament 30 years ago.
Angry voters punished governments in Spain, Bulgaria, Hungary, Latvia, Greece and Ireland – all countries hit hard by the economic crisis.
But support for centre-Left parties fell across the EU, with non-socialist fringe parties picking up protest votes and many centre-Right governments weathering the storm.
Geert Wilders and his far-Right anti-immigrant party won second place in the Netherlands, behind the ruling Christian Democrats, taking 17 per cent of the total vote. In Austria, two anti-immigrant parties won an unprecedented 17.7 per cent.
Austria’s eurosceptic parties also did well, winning 17.8 per cent of the vote at the expense of the ruling coalition. In Slovakia, a turnout of just 19.4 per cent was expected to propel at least one ultra-nationalist into the European Parliament for the first time. Hungarian far-right parties were also predicted to make gains.
Latvian voters protesting against high unemployment, a looming currency devaluation and swingeing public spending cuts punished their government.
Alfred Rubiks, a former top Communist official, representing Latvia’s Russian minority, was set to win a seat as a Euro-MP, according to exit polls.
Mr Rubiks resisted Latvian independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 and later spent three years in jail for backing a coup to unseat the new government.
In Ireland, exit polls showed that the ruling Fianna Fail party could lose one of its four seats to campaigners against the Lisbon Treaty, ahead of a second referendum in the Autumn.
Greek voters, furious after a spate of corruption scandals and their government’s handling economic crisis, were set to hand the opposition Socialists victory over the ruling conservative New Democracy party.
Fringe and protest parties in Greece were also expected to make gains at the expense of mainstream centrist political parties.
In Germany, centre-Right parties suffered losses but maintained their lead as support fell for the Left-wing opposition before national elections this autumn.”I believe that the vast majority of Germans see Europe as being important. But we politicians have to make it clearer that each individual can contribute something, for example by turning out to vote,” said Angela Merkel, the Chancellor.
According to exit polls, her Democratic Union and its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union, won just over 38 per cent of the EU vote.
Germany’s Social Democrats were predicted to win only 21.3 per cent, their worst showing since 1945 in a nationwide election.
The vote could signal the demise of Mrs Merkel’s tense “grand coalition” with the Social Democrats in September.
Her preferred future coalition partner, the pro-business Free Democrats, scored more than 10 per cent – up at least four per cent on 2004 election results.
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