00:00In the Netherlands, the first exit poll suggests that Geert Wilders' far-right party is on course to get seven seats,
00:07which is six more than in the last election.
00:09But a Green-left-Labour merger is predicted to get a winning eight seats.
00:14And Euronews' own super-poll predicts that overall,
00:17the moderate-conservative European People's Party bloc will retain most of the seats.
00:22But despite its rapid rise, the far-right parties won't dominate the next parliament.
00:28The vast majority of MEPs coming to Brussels following this week's weekend elections
00:34will still remain vastly pro-European.
00:38Even delegations from ECR, to a certain degree,
00:42will not question the absolute essence of the European Union.
00:47In Germany, the centre-right is on course to get more than 30%,
00:51but it's the far-right AFD that will be most closely watched.
00:55It's only slightly slowed down its phenomenal growth and may get 16%.
01:00Despite waves of protests across the EU,
01:03it appears that more moderate parties will ultimately prevail.
01:07Even so, it's the far-right parties that look like getting the biggest gains.
01:12No more so than in France, where Marine Le Pen's national rally may get an astonishing 32% of the vote.
01:19President Macron's Renaissance Party looks like suffering a massive defeat.
01:23He's a fervent supporter of Ukraine, but will the new parliament be as anti-Putin as he is?
01:29In Italy, Prime Minister Giorgio Meloni's far-right Brothers of Italy Party could get 27%.
01:35It's likely to join the ECR, which is only slightly less far-right than the Identity and Democracy bloc.
01:42There is still a big divide even between the ECR and Identity and Democracy group.
01:48So I rather see the EPP going together with the ECR in negotiating deals with the Social Democrats and the Liberals
01:55than these two making deals with Identity and Democracy.
01:59After Germany, Spain is the other mainstay of the EPP.
02:03The moderate-right People's Party is more likely to win,
02:07but Prime Minister Sanchez's socialists are close behind them.
02:11The swing to the far-right might be slightly less than was first predicted,
02:15but it's still clear that EU voters will shift the balance of the parliament rightwards.
02:20In Poland, for instance, the centre-left and the left will clearly suffer.
02:24Instead, it's a battle between the right, Prime Minister Donald Tusk's coalition,
02:28and the far-right, represented by the PIS, that until April was the ruling party.
02:34It's got only the smallest of leads.
02:37By Monday, we will know just how far to the right the EU parliament has swung.
02:41And it's then that the negotiations and the deal-making will start.
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