Elections in the European Union

The leader of ultranationalist Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS), Giorgos Karatzaferis, is being treated in an intensive care unit at an Athens hospital after undergoing surgery.

Karatzaferis was admitted to a private hospital in Maroussi, northern Athens, on Saturday afternoon after feeling unwell and was diagnosed as having a blocked artery.

For the People's Movement Party (PMP), the result garnered in the European Parliament elections on Sunday is a victory, said deputy Elena Udrea at the headquarters of the formation after the first exit-polls.

Spokesperson of the opposition's Democratic Liberal Party (PDL) Adriana Saftoiu on Sunday told AGERPRES that she voted for Romania to stay in Europe.

Greece will have the largest number of candidates standing in Sunday’s European Parliament elections in relation to the size of its electorate, it was revealed on Friday.

Sxity-two percent of the EU voters are “not at all” or “not much” interested in the European Parliament elections in May, shows a survey of Ipsos-MORI.

It was conducted in April. A total of 8 833 people were polled in Belgium, Britain, Croatia, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and Sweden.