At the election of the European Parliament a record low turnout.

At the election of the European Parliament on 7 June, a record low turnout, the composition, according to preliminary estimates, about 43 percent, reports AP. Previous antirekord - in elections in 2004 - up 45.5 per cent.
According to preliminary projections, the majority of 736 mandates will be the European People's Party - the faction consisting of right parties of European Union - to get around 268 seats. Deputies from the Party of European Socialists - left parties of EU countries - are expected to receive about 170 seats.
In third place on the number of delegates to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats in Europe - they will receive approximately 81 seat. This is followed by representatives of "green" with 54 mandates.
On Sunday, European deputies selected residents of 19 countries, including Germany, Spain, France and Italy. In Germany, France and Italy won the ruling party - Merkel's CDU won 39.2 per cent of the vote, losing more than five per cent over the previous year. In France, the ruling party Union for a Popular Movement won 28.3 per cent, while Italy won pravotsentristy, led by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
In Spain, in power Spanish Socialist Workers' Party suffered a setback - led by Mariano Rahoem Conservatives gained 42.03 per cent of the vote, as the party of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, won only 38.66 percent. The parties have also played in Greece and Slovenia.
As the RIA Novosti, Latvia won the Conservative Party "Civil Union" with 24.32 percent of votes. In Estonia, the most votes won the opposition Center Party.
Note also that the European Parliament has passed at least one representative of the Swedish pirate party, which was founded in 2006 and is the third largest in the country. Representatives of the party in favor of easing the law's protection of intellectual property.