On May 25 European Parliament (EP) election was held in Slovakia, the fourth of its kind since the accession of the country to the EU. Two points are worth mentioning in the beginning. First, the turnout increased considerably since the previous election in 2014. However, with roughly one in four voters who attended the election, it was still the lowest number in the whole EU. Second, the results confirmed substantial changes in political life in the recent development of Slovakia with essential implications for the upcoming years. In line with other EU countries, the elections are held under proportional representation...

The eighth Spanish European Parliament Election (EPE) marked the end of an electoral cycle that began one month before (on April 26th, 2019) with the General Election in which the incumbent Socialist Party (PSOE) won a plurality of seats. However, at the time of the EPE a parliamentary agreement to elect a new national government had not been reached yet, since most parties were eager to postpone this decision until after the election. On top of that, during the EPE campaign Catalan politicians who had organized an independence referendum on October 2017 and ran as candidates in the General...

Ci sono dei numeri particolarmente importanti per capire l’evoluzione della politica italiana. I primi, come abbiamo già visto, sono 1,5, 2 e 3, ovvero per quanto si moltiplicano i voti della Lega rispettivamente al Nord, al Centro e al Sud. Ma ce ne sono altri forse anche più importanti, che vengono da un’interpretazione più approfondita dei flussi elettorali, ovvero delle stime dei movimenti di voto tra diversi partiti. Abbiamo già presentato, come altri istituti, diverse analisi di flusso (tra politiche 2018 e europee 2019); tuttavia – soprattutto quando ci sono tanti numeri – per trarne delle conclusioni utili bisogna...

The context During the last five years, Portugal has been regarded as a successful case in the European context from both an economic and political point of view (see Fernandes et al, 2018). On the one hand, the country has turned the page on its 2011-2014 crisis, when a financial assistance programme was implemented with painful austerity policies. On the other hand, unlike other Southern European countries, Portugal’s party system has proved to be very resilient. Although mainstream parties have struggled to retain their electoral support, the Socialist Party (PS, Partido Socialista) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD, Partido Social...

Dall’analisi dei flussi elettorali di Modena per le elezioni europee 2019 emerge un quadro interessante per quanto riguarda il Partito Democratico. I dati sono incoraggianti per il partito che, lo scorso 26 maggio, ha visto riconfermato sindaco Gian Carlo Muzzarelli e, alle europee, ha goduto di una crescita nei consensi di oltre otto punti percentuali rispetto alle elezioni politiche dell’anno precedente, raccogliendo con 37.915 voti su 95.145 quasi il 40% dei consensi (Tab. 1). Nonostante il 55,6% raggiunto alle europee del 2014 sia rimasto un traguardo lontano, il Partito Democratico a guida Zingaretti è riuscito a limitare la crescita...