“I could tell you that the election is secret and I won’t tell you. But since I like you quite a bit, I’ll answer you 😀I gave my vote to my friend Klářa Dostálovabut I didn’t tell you which party or movement I voted for,” ex-president Miloš Zeman saidwho thus supported the leader of the ANO movement in the European elections.
At the same time, Zeman went to a meeting of another party – Jiří Paroubek’s ČSSD – before the elections. “A politician should be close to the people. As president of the republic, I have therefore participated in countless debates with you, citizens, in squares and town squares. On Thursday, I visited Teplice for the ČSSD meeting, which is led by Jiří Paroubek. And I was happy to sign the book Conspiracy – The Truth about the attempt to remove the president of the Czech Republic,” reported Zeman after the ČSSD meeting in Teplice, where ex-Prime Minister Jana Volfová welcomed him in addition to former Prime Minister Paroubek.
That’s ex-president Václav Klaus after he withdrew his vote in the European elections, he took a dig at President Petr Pavel. According to Klaus, he gave his vote “to those who see that it is a fatal mistake to vote for a form of forced European integration”. “I think that Europe does not need it,” he said in Kobylisy for iDnes.cz.
At the same time, he commented on the speculations regarding the activities of the candidate of the Oath and the Motorists, Filip Turk, who was supposed to have Nazi symbols at home, including an SS dagger. “I am not defending any misdeeds of youth. But today I heard a sentence in the media that if a Turk said something at the age of twenty-five, then we should ask what the president of today, who was an intelligence officer of the communist army, was doing at the age of twenty-five. said the former president to Turk, who is on the same candidate list as Klaus’ colleague from the Václav Klaus Institute, Petr Macinka.
In Germany, polling stations closed at 6 p.m. According to ARD and ZDF television forecasts with 30% of the European elections, the opposition conservative union CDU/CSU clearly wonthe second is the Alternative for Germany.
French voter turnout could hit 40-year record writes Politico. By 5:00 p.m., 45.26 percent of voters had cast their ballots, roughly two percentage points more than at the same time in 2019. The level of participation is on track to reach its highest point since the turn of the millennium.
In Austria, the Free Party will win by a margin, the portal Oe24 calculates on the basis of a survey at polling stations (exit poll). According to the survey, the nationalist populists will get 27-29% of the votes, the ruling populists (approx. 22%) and the socialists will jump by one percentage point. Also according to other models, the FPÖ will get six MEPs, the People’s Party and the Socialists will get five seats each, and the Greens and the Liberals (NEOS) will get two seats each.
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