you know interesting points made there but what about the populists because this is the big question we were all asking ahead of this vote how well are they going to do and we don't see in france marrying the pen perform well my test of any in italy and they said they want to form a big powerful populist group in the european parliament will we see that actually turned out. well the voting total if you look at the vote total for the right wing populous it's about there where many expected it to be maybe a little lower so you can say it's victory all across the board they're probably not going to be able to fathom the necessary groups from the different countries to have the strongest group in the european parliament nevertheless you know they're clearly one of the winners of the evening with 2 real highlight wins for them and you mentioned them in france for example in the pens. managed to beat out in monterrey mark hall's liberal party and in italy. party made significant gains that were around 30 percent i believe that the last european

elections they had around 6 to 7 percent so that is a significant gain if you ask me. for the last most are happy as i said before that the total seems containable there is a clear majority an overwhelming majority for pro european parties in the european parliament even if it's got more complicated to to sort of manufacture a majority. all right our brussels bureau chief marks has been reporting for us thank you so much max. well here in germany it was not a very good night for the parties that make up the government conservatives and her coalition partners the social democrats together they lost almost 20 percent of their votes the biggest gainers where the german greens who doubled their showing a result that propels them into 2nd place the far right if the party also gained ground but lost support in comparison to the last national election.

i sometimes reaction speak louder than words the german greens ecstatic as they watched their vote sarge. triumph belts off the back of young voters under climate emergency a warning shots of the country's government was the signal agist the signal today is that the german government has been voted down as a result of its hesitation on climate protection and its failure to unify europe. up give your god vs we are fighting for european solidarity and strong climate protection emotional. at the c.d.u. party the watch dawn in dread not exactly drowning their sorrows but these results down 7 percent make for sobering reading as the party grapples with the country's shifting demographics. so i retired several thousands yes

certainly we have not been dynamic enough in government and we fail to give convincing answers the voters across germany have expected of us interruption and. across town not their government coalition partners yes p d it was a picture of fool frontal despair. they saw almost half their vote disappear 27 percent to 15 the party's leadership pleaded for members not to lose the face. on. its mercer island as it is i would like to ask all our s.p.d. members and supporters to take hot and to look confidently to the future even if today's results are painful they show us that we have a lot to do. for the far right if t. it was more a night of shot and freude than success. the biggest cheer for the

s.p.d. and c.d.u. losses. they had threatened an insurgency but in the end mustered 10 percent the disappointment hard to hide. the again we're going to lose to repair the e.u. to reduce the e.u. to a school work that is why we have been elected just what we are going to do in brussels . these may have been european elections but the results may well she caught domestic politics to. talk about the results here in germany with our chief political editor who is with us thank you mr so we saw the centrist party again losing support here in germany why is that. they're asking themselves out this evening actually i mean clearly ever since those past general elections and 2017 the far right if tikhon came on as

a new kid on the block here really changing the political spectrum would be fragmenting the parliament and we've seen this as a trend all across europe but then when you look more closely the conservative c.d.u. and the social democrats they failed to reach those young voters we already heard that the environment was a key issue here that's why the greens went so far ahead the big question is are the green so strong what the social democrats so weak because they've bled voters did also to the green party and the social democrats received yet another dressing down at the ballot box here in germany we're talking about the parties that make up the current coalition government and if they could loosen support can they continue to run a government together but for now they say yes i was at the seed you had courses and party where there was a clear message that they want to continue this coalition but we'll have to wait and see over the next couple of days whether the social democrats will once again

get into that downward spiral of political and of us breakdown that we've seen so many times before and. usually ends in them changing their leadership but they really are running out of potential stuff at the top very fast you mentioned the greens coming in as the 2nd biggest party here in the syrian election vote for germany what has been the secret to their success well 1st of all i mean the environment was a big issue particular climate change issue that was completely missed by the other major parties. at large at the same time they are living proof that to beat right wing populist parties like the if you can also be successful by portraying a positive kind of yes we can choose to wards the future and that particular also resonates once again with younger voters let's talk about the right wing populist they came in at a little above 10 percent now at the last several elections here in germany they were close to 13 percent and we saw them polling even above that over the past year

or 2 so is this really the result that they wanted or have they really peaked. while that is it more complicated picture because we. learn to cope today say that they really felt that they'd been punished more than the. for that tape scandal that we saw with the vice chancellor from their own right wing populist party in austria being caught on tape basically offering governmental services for cast the far right if he still wants to continue working with the f.b.i. so. there was a feeling that they've been penalized for this but it also raises the question yes they potentially have maxed out we saw them actually pick up supporting comparison to the last european elections but it's you know significantly less than in the last general elections but when you look at eastern states so we had communal elections here but also those european election results and places like tooling in

those places that are going to regional. olson knew autumn the if he managed to become the strongest force in 2 of those states so we'll be talking about the if tina very different context and and and there will be a very different political picture coming from those particular strongholds of the if t. in a couple of months time most likely and that once again raises the question have they maxed out if you look at the whole of the old building from certain areas so i think that's still an open question but for now they stayed below expectations both for monks their own supporters but also their political opponents right our chief political editor mr thank you so much for your analysis. and it's a similar picture in britain were nigel for raja's breaks that party is on course to become the biggest party with about a 3rd of the vote it's been taking votes from the governing conservatives and center left labor but the results show the pro e.u.

also show liberal democrats surging into 2nd place they've also taken votes from both of the large parties the greens and other pro e.u. parties had called on voters to support them after prime minister theresa may fail to get her briggs a deal approved and the u.k. had to take part in the european elections. very well let's take a look at what this popular search means for the european union we have with us now from london our correspondent there barbara basal standing by for us and with us here in our studios a political analyst or less than good good to have you both with us barbara let's start with you there in london now this entire election has been overshadowed by prime minister teresa mayes failure to get brakes it through parliament so what does the result of this vote mean for that process. it means that the country is still deeply and totally polarized over brix it and it also shows that what you needed in this european election was an unambiguous message so the 2

parties and the 2 sides that really came out was that the brics a party where the whole program is in the name we want direction we want it now did really really well and we have to remember when this party was founded just a couple of weeks ago by nigel frosh and he could just sort of siphon off all the bricks the cheers from the conservatives particularly and some from the labor party which got punished for doing the opposite sitting on the fence and looking both ways looking to the remainders the pro europeans and looking to the. voters and trying to satisfy them both and that of course doesn't work so we see that what works well is that you have to have one message and you have to sell it clearly which is what the liberal democrats did their slogan was indeed bollocks to bricks it and so that was really rewarded by voters which really flocked to the lib dems

which had been half dead before they started again and this european election so that is the main message and it shows that the country is divided more or less through the middle you can't really make out where a majority lies it is just like 5057 how all of what do you make of that what we just heard from barbara and she's saying that the sense of the country is divided 5050 always saying a real significant shift in the way that british politics has operated as we know it you know unfortunately i think just just the culpeper of the show we are observing for 2 years now and it's frustrating on the one hand because you see this big victory of the party and you have former interview with a representative of the brakes of party so who have to explain why he is now. oh a member of the european parliament it's an irony of history if you say so the entire situation is you have a country going for you dictions with the rest of europe while at the same time

everyone expects the country to be out of the e.u. so but how do you explain the brakes of party doing so well in the conservative party taking such a hit because it's a question of credibility of course so the tories unless lost all the credibility is in the war as labor did that's that's the thing you can see it's not just the just the reason may in a government have been blame but also all jeremy corbyn or a couple of months ago was predicted as maybe the new head of government but then he fed into the same trap he did not when you take position and as you can see across europe all those party who did not take a clear position have another clear voice out they are being bashed by by voters and those no matter if they're right or left or green or whatever who had a clear message for the people actually have been rewarded as we just learned from the from the real threats in all of the of the lib dems in the u.k.

nobody better a penny on them but they had a clear message and people rewarded them for the proper i want to ask you about what olaf has just said you know jeremy corbyn has been anything but clear about the labor party stance on brags that labor has done also particularly poorly here will this put more pressure on jeremy corbyn to back another referendum. yes it did because we have just heard to tom watson one home one of the vice leaders of the labor party really call for didn't say now we finally have to learn the lesson he all the time said we have to be clear we have to just say to people what we stand for and carbon couldn't decide and he sort of turned this way and that way and was completely ambiguous throughout and now the calls are getting louder of course. bought it the point is that political so much capital has been squandered how can they make good on that it is hardly conceivable how can they now

all of a sudden change tack again and tell people ok now we've made up all minds after the european election went so badly and now we tell you we're going to promise you a 2nd referendum who's going to believe them it is more or less ridiculous so they have really sort of wasted their relatively strong position after the last national elections and you can't really see them recover from that very quickly all right and one question to i'm going to put to both of you starting with you barbara just quickly more chaos in london what is this going to mean for europe. it for your it was going to mean that the bricks of party it was not just for are just going to go back to brussels triomphe and leave box on the other hand nobody knows for how long 3 months 6 months 9 months it is completely open but awarded means for the new prime minister who is supposed to take office like image and lie that she has really nowhere to turn if he drags the country out with

a heart directed relatively quickly to satisfy the breaks of cheers he's not going to have a majority in parliament if he doesn't do it he's going to frustrate his voters even more so what to do he is sort of stuck in the middle it's an impossible task here take on that quickly. brooks is kind of a virus you could say so it brought down an entire country and we all watched it with pain and now of course the question is will it affect the rest of the continent because the deadlines have been pushed far away due to the demands of the reason may and the question is ok how long will the e.u. invest its credibility as a partner of the ok to play that game or maybe will they face the unfortunate will really say ok we have a no deal scenario and we take it now because we can foresee what the consequences will be if we just go on right once again more questions than answers in this process left and get with us here in studio and bob levey so for us in london thank

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