The European electoral marathon, which began yesterday in the Netherlands, continues today in Ireland and the Czech Republic. In the Eastern European country, at the fifth electoral date for the European elections, voting began at 2pm with the closing scheduled for tomorrow at the same time. Around 8.5 million citizens are called to elect 21 representatives to the European Parliament.
In the lead in the polls with 32% is Action of Dissatisfied Citizens (Ano 2011), the opposition party of the former Czech prime minister, Andrej Babis, with a liberal-conservative and populist orientation. Ano 2011, which is part of the Renew Europe liberals in the European Parliament, in recent days has raised the possibility of leaving the group after the vote. Following is the centre-right governing coalition Spolu (Together) led by the Civic Democratic Party (ODS) of Prime Minister Petr Fiala, among the leading exponents of the European Conservatives and Reformists (Ecr), the same political family as Fratelli of Italy (Fdi). According to polls, Fiala’s coalition would be stuck at 24%, eight percentage points from Ano 2011.
One of the main challenges of the vote will be that of turnout, traditionally low in the country. At the 2019 European elections, just 28.72% of those entitled to vote went to the polls. The electoral campaign was marked by a heated debate on the war in Ukraine, the Green Del and immigration, with Babis’s party accusing the government of having negotiated an agreement, the one on the new EU Pact for immigration and immigration. asylum, contrary to national interests. The eve of the vote was then characterized by strong fears of Russian interference, after the closure of the Voice of Europe website, a vehicle for Russian disinformation based in Prague, which intercepted European parliamentarians to disseminate ‘made in Russia’ propaganda.
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