A bad day at the polls for incumbent parties in Europe: In Germany, in what looked likely to be the worst showing in a national vote in postwar election history, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrat Party polled only 21.6 percent, well below the 30.7 percent it scored in 1999 and short of already pessimistic forecasts, according to surveys of voters leaving the polls. In France, the center-right party of President Jacques Chirac appeared to be in for another drubbing, after its humiliating defeat in regional elections in March, as turnout was projected to reach the all-time low in the Parliament's history...While Euroskeptic parties from Britain to the Czech Republic gained ground, Austria's Freedom Party, known for the anti-immigrant oratory of some of its leaders, might have lost four of its five seats in Parliament...Spain and Greece, where voters overturned their governments earlier this year and looked set to confirm their choices today, were the exceptions.
6/13/2004
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Josh Eidelson received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Political Science from Yale University, where he helped lead the Undergraduate Organizing Committee. He has written about local and national politics as an opinion columnist for the Yale DailyNews, a research fellow for Talking Points Media, and a contributor to CampusProgress.org. Views expressed here are solely his own. Contact: "jeidelson" at "gmail" dot com.
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