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Right, Center parties win EP elections

Jun 10, 2009
By TBT Staff

BALLOT CAST: Latvian President Valdis Zatlers casts his vote in the June 6 elections, in which Latvians chose both their European parliament representatives and local leaders. The two elections coinciding is thought to have helped boost turnout.
TALLINN - Centrist and right leaning parties have topped the lists at the European Parliament elections, which took place on June 6 and 7. According to preliminary results released on June 7, the Estonian Center Party came out on top in the country with a total of 26.1 percent of the popular vote. The party took two of the country's six seats 's increasing their mandate by one over the previous electoral cycle 's after an aggressive campaign that included sending thousands of text messages t ...

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