di Mikołaj Cześnik e Michał Kotnarowski Il contesto Le elezioni europee del 25 maggio sono le terze elezioni europee nella storia della moderna Polonia democratica. Le prime si sono tenute nel 2004, all’indomani dell’ingresso nell’Unione Europea, e le seconde nel 2009. Inentrambi i casi si sono verificati una bassa partecipazione elettorale e un successo dei partiti piccoli e radicali. Nel 2004 la partecipazione al voto fu infatti del 21%: il secondo valore più basso tra i paesi europei (solola Slovacchia fece peggio, col 17%). Inoltre questo valore era particolarmente basso anche al confronto con le elezioni nazionali più ravvicinate (nel...

Traduzione di Giorgia Ramazzotti. Introduzione Le elezioni del Parlamento Europeo in Polonia hanno avuto luogo domenica 26 Maggio 2019. Come nel 2014-2015, sono state parte di una lunga ‘maratona elettorale’ durante la quale i Polacchi sono chiamati a eleggere i loro rappresentanti di governo locale (ottobre-novembre 2018), i deputati al Parlamento Europeo (maggio 2019), i deputati e i senatori al Parlamento nazionale (probabilmente ottobre 2019) e il presidente (maggio 2019). Questo particolare contesto di elezioni consecutive, che si ripete già per la quarta volta nella storia delle elezioni del Parlamento Europeo in Polonia, ha determinato il loro carattere e svolgimento. A causa di...

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...

Over six million voters were eligible to select 17 members of the European Parliament (EP) in Bulgaria under a proportional representation system with preferential voting in a single nation-wide constituency. 318 candidates were nominated by thirteen political parties, eight coalitions and six initiative committees. Voting in the EP elections is mandatory in Bulgaria, but there is no penalty for not turning out to vote. Furthermore, voting can take place only in person in polling districts and there is no postal voting. These voting arrangements, combined with the lack of any new political formations to mobilize habitual non-voters and the...

  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...