European elections 2024, everything you need to know: the complete guide

European elections 2024, the complete guide.
In recent months the member states of the European Union have decided the date of the community consultation: voting will take place from 6 to 9 June 2024.
In January 2024 the Council of Ministers established that in Italy the European elections will take place on Saturday 8 and on Sunday 9 June, also giving the green light to the merger with the first round of the administrative elections and with the regional ones in Piedmont and Basilicata.
As the European elections approach, the chessboard of candidates among the political leaders also appears clearer: Matteo Renzi will certainly be in the field, Giuseppe Conte and Matteo Salvini will remain out while both Giorgia Meloni and Elly Schlein have not yet made a decision on the matter .
According to electoral polls, the "Ursula majority", which currently governs in Brussels, would be in sharp decline, all to the advantage of the right, independents and Eurosceptics.
The June vote could consequently reshape the community balance.
Here is everything you need to know about the 2024 European elections, with the official vote date, the electoral law in force in Italy, how the composition of the next European Parliament will be determined and what the polls say.
EUROPEAN ELECTIONS 2024 DATE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTION LAW CANDIDATES POLLS European elections 2024: the date Since they were established in 1979, the 2024 elections will be the tenth European elections to be held in the Old Continent.
As per practice, the Council of the European Union unanimously decided the date of the vote.
The ambassadors of the 27 member countries of the European Union have decided to call the European elections from 6 to 9 June 2024, with Italy going to vote on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June.
If each country can independently decide the date of the European elections – always remaining within the range from Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th June 2024 – the counting will begin simultaneously in all states, probably starting from 11pm on Sunday 9th June .
The European Parliament In the 2024 European elections, the citizens of the European Union will vote to elect a total of 705 MEPs with the seats distributed according to the population of each member state: previously there were 751 but, after Brexit, the inevitable scissors.
By law each member state can elect a maximum of 96 MEPs and a minimum of 6; Italy will bring 73 parliamentarians to Brussels and Strasbourg: only Germany (96) and France (79) will elect more than us.
Each state will elect its deputies through its own electoral law which, consequently, will not be the same for all member countries.
Electoral law The electoral law in Italy for the European elections is a pure proportional system: the country is divided into five constituencies (North-West, North-East, Centre, South and Islands), with a threshold at national level for the lists set at 4%.
These are the seats allocated to each constituency in Italy.
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North-Western Italy: 20 II.
North-eastern Italy: 15 III.
Central Italy: 15 IV.
Southern Italy: 18 V.
Insular Italy: 8 The electoral law provides for the possibility of expressing a preferential vote: each voter can indicate up to three candidates from the constituency list voted for.
The candidates At the moment among the big names there is only one official candidate for the 2024 European elections: Matteo Renzi, who has announced his presence among the ranks of the Il Centro list which, in addition to Italia Viva, could also see the presence of Clemente Mastella .
On the field but not with Il Centro there will be the leader of South Call North Cateno De Luca, with the mayor of Terni – and leader of Alternativa Popolare – Stefano Bandecchi also expected to be on the field.
In the center-right, however, Arianna Meloni has pulled back, but her sister Giorgia Meloni could be on the field.
There is also talk of a possible return of Roberto Formigoni.
However, Giuseppe Conte and Matteo Salvini will not run, with the League instead expected to focus heavily on General Roberto Vannacci.
In the Democratic Party there could be Nicola Zingaretti, with Elly Schlein still undecided on what to do: much will depend on what Giorgia Meloni's choice will be.
As regards the 5 Star Movement, Giuseppe Conte should not grant special exemptions to those who have already held two mandates in Italy or Europe: among the Five Star Movement, however, one of the hottest names is that of Pasquale Tridico.
There is also great movement on the left, where the former president of the Puglia Region Nichi Vendola could run as a candidate with Avs, with the journalist Michele Santoro who has announced his own pacifist list Peace, earth dignity to be presented at the European elections: there could be on the list Ignazio Marino, Vauro and Mimmo Lucano.
read also Candidates for the 2024 European elections: from Renzi to Meloni, who are the big names in the field The polls There are various polls carried out in view of the 2024 European elections, both in Italy and in the other 26 member states.
In view of the important vote, the Politico.eu website has been constantly monitoring the performance of the European groups for some time by averaging the various polls carried out in the individual member states.
As of January 5, this would be the situation for the 2024 European elections.
As can be seen, the polls for the 2024 European elections would see the Ursula majority (PP, S&D and Re) decreasing which, from a total of 421 MEPs in 2019, could go to 394 parliamentarians.
This is the projection of the seats of the next European Parliament according to a Europe Elects elaboration dated October 2023.
These in detail would be the percentages of the various groups and the seats assigned.
EPP (Popular) – 21.3% (160 seats) S&D (Socialists) – 19.1% (146 seats) ECR (Reformers) – 11.8% (86 seats) Id (right) – 10.8% (74 seats) Renew Europe (Liberals) – 9.9% (90 seats) Greens/Efa (Greens) – 7% (52 seats) Unafilliated (not yet registered) – 7% (10 seats) Gue/Ngl (left) – 6 .9% (38 seats) Ni (unaffiliated) – 6% (56 seats) These would instead be the variations in seats compared to the current composition of the European Parliament.
Ecr: +20 Id: +13 Ni: +8 Gue/Ngl: +6 S&D: +2 Renew Europe: -11 Ppe: -12 Greens/Efa: -20 As for Italy, this is the projection of seats according to a processing by Europe Elects dated October 2023.
Brothers of Italy: 25 seats Democratic Party: 19 seats 5 Star Movement: 14 seats Lega: 9 seats Forza Italia: 4 seats Action: 4 seats Svp: 1 seat It remains to be understood however, how the various centrist components will present themselves, with the distribution of seats that could change if the lists of the Center and the Green-Left Alliance also exceed the threshold of 4%.
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