A new survey released by the European Parliament on Friday shows the centre right remaining the biggest group after the May elections.
The survey, which is based on national opinion polls showed the European Peoples Party winning 188 seats, which is seven more than last month’s survey.
It translates into 27% of the 705 MEPs in the next European Parliament. It current has 29% of the seats.
Socialists, the second largest group, also increased their seats to 20% — edging up from 19% in the past projections but from 25% in the current legislature.
The far right expanded its growth, confirming it is set to be the fourth largest group in the assembly after the liberals, which lost ground in the latest projection.
For Cyprus, the projection is two seats each for Disy and Akel, one for Diko and one for Elam – unchanged from the previous projection.
The German Christian Democrat CDU/CSU alliance led by Merkel would remain the biggest single party with 33 seats, but only just ahead of Italy’s League, the far-right group now in government in Rome.
The data is based on a collection of reliable polls conducted by national polling institutes in the member states and aggregated by Kantar Public on behalf of Parliament.
Parties are only allocated to existing political groups or where they are already affiliated to an associated European political party. All new political parties and movements that have not yet declared their intentions are categorised as “other”.
The next Parliament will have fewer MEPs (705) than the outgoing Parliament (751).
All data can be downloaded from the press tool kit. The European elections will take place from May 23 to 26.
