#compared to the exit polls from thursday. which. i won't lie. is Very Nice after hearing them hope for the opposite since then | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

itwoodbeprefect · 5 months ago

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voting has concluded everywhere!! the results embargo has been lifted!! and i won't lie it's not Great (on some national levels it Sucks) but oh boy. it's not hopelessly terrible either, so i'll take it

i did my duty as a european citizen (went on a scavenger hunt to find the voting place which they moved from a nearly impossible to miss spot at the outer edge of a huge outdoor sport complex to a little building all the way at the back end of the complex which, near as i could tell while cycling winding deserted little roads that direction, is not accessible without navigating through a barely-signaged maze)!

#in the dutch results the 8 seats projected in the exit polls for the left GL-PvdA alliance remain (putting them at number one)#and the far right party that won big in the national elections (PVV) is still number two but is the ONLY party to lose a seat #compared to the exit polls from thursday. which. i won't lie. is Very Nice after hearing them hope for the opposite since then #it means they land at 6. which is still 5 new seats (they had 1) but at low numbers like these that's a Much bigger gap towards 8.#not to mention that this not-PVV seat goes to a small specifically pro-europe party (exit poll gave volt 1 seat but they get 2)#which is fun!! that's great actually!! that's the best way for things to pan out bc it's THE most annoying to the PVV #AND (as the exit poll predicted. because it was largely spot-on) the FvD (different far right party) sinks from 4 to a glorious 0 seats #(beautiful. cleansing. healing. <3)#so all of this combined with the average european vote shifting the parliament somewhat right but in no way causing a landslide #and the same three center families (combinations of national party fractions in the eu parliament) keeping a majority... well.#that's okay. i can live with this. i'm mildly relieved because on average The Very Worst didn't happen and that's all i dared hope for #talking #eu #macron though... what are you doing. i know why but also WHY would you give her that chance. good lord #this is The Exact Thing that happened in the netherlands and it led to. well i won't go into another ramble but it didn't work out #for our version of macron.

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