The PSOE would win the elections to the European Parliament held today by getting 18 seats (4 more than in 2014), followed by the PP to which it grants 11-12 (the popular ones now have 16), according to the GAD3 poll for ABC . The third most voted party would be Ciudadanos with 8 parliamentarians, followed by United We Can with 7 (it obtained 5 five years ago). Vox would enter the European chamber for the first time with 4 0 5 seats In the Catalan battle between Carles Puigdemont and Oriol Junqueras, heads of the list of Junts Per Catalunya and Now Repúblicas, the former would get 2-3 seats and the coalition where it is located ERC would get 2, Ep reported. While Puigdemont is on the run from the Spanish Justice and would have to go to the Cortes Generales to collect the minutes and promise his position as an MEP, Junqueras was suspended last Friday as a deputy in Congress when he was in prison and was prosecuted for rebellion after the coup in Catalonia in 2017. For its part, the Coalition for Europe, which includes the PNV and the Canary Islands Coalition, among others, would obtain between 0 and 1 seats. The 2014 European elections were won by the PP with 16 seats and 26.06%, followed by the PSOE with 14 seats and 23% percent of the votes. In third place was the United Left, which obtained almost 10% of the votes and six seats. Next came Podemos, which was competing for the first time in elections with five seats and almost 8%. For its part, Unión Progreso y Democracia (UPyD) won 6.50% and four seats, followed by Coalition for Europe, formula with which the CDC, PNV and Canary Islands Coalition and Compromiso por Galicia were presented, obtaining 3 seats.The EPDD, the coalition for which ERC concurred, obtained 2 seats and 4.02%.The same seats were obtained by Ciudadanos, although with 3.16% of the votes. Finally, the Los Pueblos Deciden (LPD) coalition won a seat, where EH Bildu joined, as did the European Spring coalition.High turnout Turnout in the European elections at six in the afternoon was 49.39%, 15.32% points more than the 34.07% registered at the same time in the last elections to the European Parliament, in 2014. The coincidence of this European appointment with the municipal and regional elections has had this mobilizing effect in Spain. The official results of these elections Europeans will not be known until 11 p.m., after the closure of schools in Italy, the last to do so.In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives remain the leading force in the European elections, according to public television polls ZDF at the closing of the premises. While the SDP would register another strong setback, the conservative bloc would have obtained 27.5% of the votes – seven points less than in 2014 – while the Greens would become the second force with 20.5%. For their part, the Social Democrats would suffer a new setback, falling to 15.5%, followed by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), with 10.5%.
