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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Search Search: EU set to veer right at EU parliamentary polls AFP - Monday, June 8 BRUSSELS (AFP) - - Centre-right parties were set for a firm win over their Socialist rivals in EU parliamentary elections Sunday, though voter apathy and extremist gains were expected to resound in recession-hit Europe. ADVERTISEMENT Voters from 19 out of the 27 EU nations -- including France, Germany, Italy and Spain -- cast ballots on the fourth and final day of polling. Opinion and exit polls suggested poor turnout which could favour extremist parties, though it would not greatly upset the balance in a slimmed-down 736-seat assembly. The European People Party (EPP) -- an umbrella group of centre-right parties -- was expected to return as the biggest bloc in the EU's only elected institution ahead of the Socialists with the liberals in a slightly diminished third place. EPP-affiliated governing parties in France, Germany, Italy and Poland were expected to come out on top while conservative opposition parties were seen faring well in Austria, Britain, Spain and some smaller member states. German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives suffered around a six-percentage-point fall in their share of the vote but had a clear lead over other parties, exit polls showed. In Germany the vote is seen a litmus test for Merkel and her conservatives ahead of legislative polls in September in the country which holds the most EU parliament seats. In Britain, where voting took place Thursday, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is battling for survival after ministerial resignations forced an early cabinet reshuffle. Poor results from the EU polls, on top of major losses in local elections last Thursday, will reignite backbench unrest. One newspaper poll predicted his ruling Labour party would be beaten into fourth place, even behind the anti-EU UK Independence Party. "This has been a testing time for our whole country, not just for the economy of our country but for the whole politics of our country," Brown said as he vowed to fight on despite his dwindling support. Some 388 million people were eligible to vote in the world's biggest transnational elections. The predict09.eu survey, the last major pre-vote poll, predicted the EPP would win 262 seats against 194 for the Socialists, despite the fact that the British Conservatives and others have left and decided to set up their own group. However turnout has fallen with each EU election since they started in 1979, and polls have suggested this year would not be any better than the record low 45.5 percent in 2004. Hours before the close of polls, turnout rates were marginally lower from 2004 levels in Germany at 20.2 percent and in France at 33.18. Merkel, who heads an uneasy governing coalition with the SPD, acknowledged in an interview with the Bild Am Sontag that it was up to politicians to get voters more interested in European elections. "I believe that the vast majority of Germans see Europe as being important ... But we politicians have to make it clearer that each individual can contribute something, for example by turning out to vote," Merkel said. A lack of voter interest was proving fertile ground for anti-EU and far-right parties capitalising on indifference towards European institutions on fears of immigration as jobless totals rise. Dutch far-right and anti-Islamic lawmaker Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom came second on Thursday with 17 percent of the vote, winning four seats in the assembly. In Austria the list of eurosceptic campaigner Hans-Peter Martin made major gains while the ruling parties both suffered losses, according to estimates from a leading polling institute. Far-right parties also chalked up gains. Exit polls in Ireland, which voted on Friday, suggested the government there had suffered a voter backlash in a triple ballot, including local polls. Greece's ruling conservatives also braced for defeat as exit polls showed them six points behind the opposition socialists. In Bulgaria, accusations of vote-buying including three arrests marred the country's European elections, despite an unprecedented clampdown. Official results showing the make-up of the incoming European Parliament were expected to start rolling in from 2000 GMT. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Sign in to recommend this article » 0 users recommend Enlarge Photo A woman sits at a polling station in Lyon, eastern France, during the European parliamentary election. 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