Early poll results show EU electing far right candidates to Parliament

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THE first major estimates coming out of the European Union parliamentary elections on Sunday suggest that the hard right will rise in the legislature despite a series of scandals in Germany, the bloc's biggest nation. The exit poll in Germany indicated that the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, rose to 16.5% from 11% in 2019 beating the Social Democratic party of Chancellor Olaf Scholz, which fell to 14%.

The combined result for the three parties in the German governing coalition barely topped 30%, with the Greens taking heavy losses. The poll comes on the heels of major gains for the far right in the Netherlands, where the party of Geert Wilders is in a neckand-neck race with a SocialistGreen alliance.