The European Parliament (EP) elections, which can decide the following five-year governance of the European Union, are coming to an finish. Among the many politicians anticipated to serve within the European Parliament, there are additionally candidates of Turkish origin.
Within the AP elections held in 2019, at the least 5 candidates of Turkish origin received the important race and gained the best to function parliamentarians within the EP.
It’s estimated that lots of the politicians of Turkish origin elected from Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Bulgaria in these elections held 5 years later will retain their positions and proceed their duties in Brussels.
Germany
Within the EP elections in Germany, two names presently serving within the parliament entice consideration.
It’s predicted that Özlem Alev Demirel-Böhlke, who was re-nominated from the Left Occasion (Die Linke), and Engin Eroğlu, who was re-nominated from the Free Voters (Freie Waehler) get together, are more likely to proceed their duties in Brussels.
Demirel-Böhlke, of Kurdish origin, who was born in Malatya and immigrated to Germany together with his household on the age of 5, was nominated as the highest candidate of the Left Occasion within the AP elections held in 2019 and has been serving as a parliamentarian since then.
Engin Eroğlu was elected to the parliament because the second-place candidate of the Free Voters Occasion within the earlier parliamentary election.
Participation of the events just lately based by folks of Turkish origin within the EP elections can also be on the agenda of Europe.
In Germany, Fatih Zingal from the Democratic Alliance for Range and Awakening (DAVA) Occasion, which has been criticized for being near the Justice and Growth Occasion (AK Occasion), which has been in energy in Turkey for 22 years, is taking part within the elections as the primary candidate. Haluk Yıldız, Chairman of the Innovation and Justice Union Occasion (BIG), the primary get together established below the management of individuals of Turkish origin, is operating as the primary candidate.
South Cyprus
Three names stand out within the elections held in Southern Cyprus. Niyazi Kızılyürek, a Member of the European Parliament and nominated by the AKEL get together, Hulusi Kilim, nominated by the Volt Cyprus Occasion, and Oz Karahan, a candidate from the Environmentalists Motion (Cyprus Inexperienced Occasion), are competing within the EP Parliament elections.
Along with his election victory in 2019, Niyazi Kızılyürek is the primary Turkish Cypriot to be eligible to enter the European Parliament.
Denmark
4 candidates from Denmark took their place within the EP race.
Taner Genç, who comes from a household from Ankara and is thought to be of Kurdish origin, is a member of the Socialist Individuals's Occasion (Socialistisk Folkeparti), Yurdal Çiçek, who settled in Næstved, Denmark in 2002, is a member of the Greens (Alternativet) Occasion. He was additionally born in Ankara and is of Kurdish origin. İbrahim Benli is competing within the elections as a candidate from the Left Occasion United Denmark (Enhedslisten) Occasion, and the younger politician Hediye Temiz, who was born to a Kurdish household in Konya, is competing within the elections as a candidate from the Social Liberal Occasion (Radikale Venstre).
Belgium
Yılmaz Kurtal, from the socialist Vooruit Occasion from the Flemish Area, is the primary Turkish politician to be nominated from a excessive place in Belgium, as he got here in third place.
On the identical time, Gümüş Helin from the Staff' Occasion (PVDA), Mustafa Uzun from the Christian Democratic and Flemish Occasion (CD&V) and Duygu Çelik (PS) from the Socialist Occasion from the Walloon Area are additionally competing as candidates.
Holland
Within the parliamentary elections, Ufuk Kahya, who’s ranked eighth on the joint record of the Labor Occasion and Inexperienced Left (PvdA/GroenLinks) Occasion, and Sinan Özkaya, who’s ranked twelfth from the identical get together, Melih Uzun, who’s ranked sixteenth from the Democrats 66 (D66) get together, Meltem Okçu, who’s ranked eighth within the Socialist Occasion (SP), and Emin Başoğlu, who’s ranked thirteenth, and Reyhan Çiğdem, who’s ranked twelfth within the VOLTS Occasion, are taking part.
The Denk Occasion, whose members are largely Turks and immigrants, shouldn’t be taking part within the AP elections this 12 months.
France
12 Turkish candidates are participating within the parliamentary elections in France, however their likelihood is low as a result of they’re in the back of the get together lists.
Two of those candidates are Gülşen Yıldırım, who’s ranked twenty sixth from the Socialist Occasion, and Zerrin Bataray, who’s ranked 63rd from the Greens. Though these events have a excessive chance of passing the brink, it’s thought of troublesome for these two candidates to be elected as a result of their rankings are behind.
Sweden
Evin Incir, of Kurdish origin, born in Diyarbakir, is operating for re-election from the Swedish Social Democratic Occasion, whereas Nuance Occasion Chairman Mikail Yuksel can also be taking part within the elections in Sweden, which has 21 seats within the European Parliament.
Roughly 360 million European Union (EU) residents went to the polls on Sunday morning to elect 720 members of the European Parliament on the earth's largest worldwide election.
On the fourth and final day of the election, voting will likely be held in 21 international locations and Italy would be the final nation to shut its poll bins at 23.00 CET (“Central European Time” – 00.00 Turkey time).
The primary nationwide predictions primarily based on exit polls are anticipated to be made at 18.15 CET (19.15 Turkish time).
Opinion polls predict that radical proper events will make historic features. Such an end result is more likely to alter the steadiness of energy within the EU's solely establishment ruled by democratically elected representatives and provides far-right forces ever higher affect over EU insurance policies. Nonetheless, these elections will even decide who will head the European establishments in Brussels, together with the European Fee and the European Council.
