European Parliament projections

Scofflaw

This is a projection by the Parliament itself based on latest poll data - poll of polls. It's not country-specific, but a snapshot of voting intentions at the Parliament level:



Source: http://www.elections2014.eu/en/news-room/content/20140324STO39616/html/2014-European-elections-latest-projections-of-seats-in-the-Parliament

The current Parliament is rather more dominated by the EPP (PPE in this image) - that's the centre-right group to which Fine Gael belongs:



So, while much of the coverage to date has focused on the possible/probable rise of eurosceptic MEPs, there's a possibly more important shift away from the centre-right consensus that has dominated politics both at the Parliament and Member State level for most of the last 10-20 years in favour of a more balanced left-right situation.

For those who don't know them, Ireland's parties sit with the following EP groups:

EPP - Fine Gael
ALDE - Fianna Fáil, Marian Harkin
S&D - Labour
GEU/NGL - Sinn Fein, Socialist Party

cordially,
Scofflaw

Jolly Red Giant

Scofflaw wrote: »

For those who don't know them, Ireland's parties sit with the following EP groups:

EPP - Fine Gael
ALDE - Fianna Fáil
S&D - Labour
GEU/NGL - Sinn Fein

cordially,
Scofflaw

Paul Murphy, Socialist Party MEP is part of GUE/NGL

oscarBravo

Marian Harkin (independent) is a member of ALDE also.