{"id":368039,"date":"2024-06-07T13:32:39","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T11:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/06\/07\/elezioni-europee-repubblica-ceca-irlanda\/"},"modified":"2024-06-12T20:32:58","modified_gmt":"2024-06-12T18:32:58","slug":"and-thats-three-after-the-netherlands-polls-open-in-the-czech-republic-and-ireland-for-12-million-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/07\/and-thats-three-after-the-netherlands-polls-open-in-the-czech-republic-and-ireland-for-12-million-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"And that&#8217;s three. After the Netherlands, polls open in the Czech Republic and Ireland for 12 million voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels&#8211;European elections are proceeding apace in the Union, with two more member countries opening the polls today (June 7) to some 12 million voters. Following the Netherlands, which <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/06\/d-day-of-the-2024-european-elections-voting-starts-from-the-netherlands-italy-waits-for-june-8-9\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">kicked off<\/a> the 2024 round of elections yesterday (June 6), the\u00a0<strong>Czech Republic and Ireland are following suit for the choice of 35 more members (out of 720) of the European Parliament<\/strong> in the 10th legislature. And in Ireland, the vote will also have national value since it will run parallel to<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/03\/european-local-elections-eu-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0administrative ones.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-map\" data-src=\"visualisation\/17882485\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_351622\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 450px;\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_351622\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-351622\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Simon-Harris.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-351622\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Simon-Harris-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Simon Harris\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Simon-Harris-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Simon-Harris-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Simon-Harris-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Simon-Harris.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Irish Taoiseach (head of government), Simon Harris<\/figcaption><\/figure><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-351622\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While the Netherlands is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/07\/exit-polls-from-the-netherlands-slow-the-far-right-landslide-timmermans-center-left-in-the-lead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analyzing the exit poll<\/a>\u00a0after the end of voting,\u00a0and in Italy, everything is ready on the eve of the vote (scheduled for June 8-9),\u00a0<strong>the Irish and Czech parties will compete\u00a0for 14 and 21 seats, respectively, in the European Parliament<\/strong>. In Ireland, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls\u00a0<\/a>predict a head-to-head contest between the center-right Fine Gael party of the <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/04\/09\/simon-harris-is-irelands-new-prime-minister-the-youngest-ever\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new Taoiseach<\/a> (head of government), <strong>Simon Harris<\/strong>, and the left-wing opposition Sinn F\u00e9in party (leading at 25 percent). The <strong>3.4 million voters<\/strong> will determine the composition of the Irish delegations to the EU Parliament and the distribution of the 949 city and county council seats.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed\" data-src=\"story\/2414406\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_176850\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 453px;\">\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_176850\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176850\" style=\"width: 453px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Schermata-2022-06-14-alle-14.53.29.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-176850\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Schermata-2022-06-14-alle-14.53.29-300x176.png\" alt=\"Andrej Babis Czech Republic\" width=\"453\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Schermata-2022-06-14-alle-14.53.29-300x176.png 300w, https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Schermata-2022-06-14-alle-14.53.29-768x452.png 768w, https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Schermata-2022-06-14-alle-14.53.29.png 874w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176850\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The former Prime Minister of the Czech Republic and leader of Ano 2011, Andrej Babi\u0161<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/figure>\n<p>As far as the Czech Republic is concerned, the opposition party of former Premier <strong>Andrej<\/strong> <strong>Babi\u0161<\/strong>, Ano 2011 (Action of Dissatisfied Citizens) &#8211; which the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/europe-poll-of-polls\/czech-republic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">polls<\/a> give at 32 percent of the votes &#8211; seems to have an easy time, while the center-right Spolu coalition currently in government led by the Civic Democratic Party (Ods) of Prime Minister <strong>Petr Fiala<\/strong> could stop at 24 percent. The <strong>8.5 million Czech voters<\/strong> will be decisive, especially in defining the political strength of the <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/05\/10\/czech-republic-campaigning-also-done-on-the-faces-of-party-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">liberal-conservative-oriented populist party<\/a> within the European Alde (Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe) family, since with its <strong>potential 7\/8 elected MEPs <\/strong>could threaten to <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/06\/04\/the-risk-of-post-election-hemorrhage-from-renew-europe-amid-exits-and-expulsions-for-right-wing-alliances\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leave the Renew Europe group<\/a>\u00a0in the EU Parliament after the European elections, in controversy with the French of Renaissance over migration policy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/18266899\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While exit polls from the June 6 vote are being analyzed in The Hague and everything is set for June 8-9 in Italy, parties in Prague and Dublin are vying for 21 and 14 MEPs, respectively, in the new EU Parliament (of 720). Irish voters will also vote on local government for the 949 city and county council seats<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5647,"featured_media":367993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[27736,25777,25778,25755,26748,26869],"class_list":["post-368039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-czechrepublic-en","tag-european-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english-english","tag-europeanelections-2024-en","tag-news-parliament-en","tag-european24-en","tag-irlanda-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368039"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369333,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368039\/revisions\/369333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}