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- Around 373 million citizens across the 27 member states of the European Union are eligible to vote on June 6-9 in elections to the European Parliament.The European Parliament is the only directly elected body of the EU, representing the citizens of its member states. Its primary functions include negotiating EU laws with the member state governments, which are represented by the European Council.
EU citizens can vote in their country of origin or from abroad. Voting from abroad is permitted in all member states except Czechia, Ireland, Malta and Slovakia. In Bulgaria and Italy that right applies only to those living within the EU. Depending on national laws, some electors abroad can vote at their national embassies, via mail or electronically.Voters may choose from individual candidates or political parties' delegates, depending on the country. Once elected, politicians from each nation will flow into the European groups that form the Parliament, based on political orientations.
A projection by poll aggregator Europe Elects forecast in April that out of the 720 seats available in the EP, the Group of the centre-right European People's Party would win 183, the centre-left Progressive Alliance of Socialists And Democrats 140, Renew Europe and the European Conservatives and Reformists 86 each, Identity and Democracy 84, with other parties winning the remaining 141 seats.
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