From June 6 to 9, voters from over two dozen European countries cast their ballots to elect lawmakers to the European Parliament for the next five years, with the largest political groups in the new European Parliament, the European Union’s only directly elected institute, remaining those in the center-left and center-right.
The EU is an economic and political union between 27 European countries. Roughly 370 million eligible voters chose 720 parliamentary members, 15 more than the 2019 election, from member states.
But the results did reveal a shift to the right, with both center-right and far-right groups gaining more seats. This election outcome also delivered a domestic setback to the leaders of both France and Germany.
Political analysts believe a three-group majority
