Dumont, PatrickKies, RaphaelSchmit, DanDe Sio, LFranklin, M NRusso, L2022-09-29978-88-6105-424-0http://hdl.handle.net/1885/274173The 2019 European Parliament (EP) elections were held only a few months after the October 2018 parliamentary elections. Surveys for the latter elections had predicted that the Christian Social People’s Party (CSV) would win votes and return to government after being an opposition party during 2013-2018, the second time since World War II. In the end, the CSV lost 5.2 percentage points, of the national vote, compared to 2013, and two of its parliamentary seats. The government coalition of the liberal DP, the social democratic LSAP and the Greens kept a majority of seats (thirty-one out of sixty) and stayed in powerapplication/pdfen-AU© 2019 Luiss University Press – Pola Srl20192021-11-28