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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11087

25 May 2014
SPECIAL EDITION - EUROPEAN ELECTIONS 2014 / (ae) ep 2014
First results put EPP ahead - negotiations to form a majority begin

Brussels, 26/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - A slim lead, but a lead nonetheless. The first results through show that the European People's Party has claimed first place in the European elections of Sunday 25 May with 212 seats, putting them 26 ahead of the Social Democrats of the S&D, who won 186 (the results of Matteo Renzi's party in Italy, largely believed to be victorious, are not yet in). In third place, Guy Verhofstadt's ALDE group had 70 seats on Sunday evening, fewer than in 2009 when the...