Censored: Conservative Candidate Excluded From Final EU Election Debate
15th May 2024
EBU, the European Broadcasting Union, is under fire for excluding the nationalist Identity and Democracy (ID) group’s representative, Anders Vistisen (Danish People’s Party) from the largest official TV debate ahead of June’s EU elections, Politico wrote.
The organizer claims that they cannot allow ID (predicted to be the next Parliament’s third largest group) to participate in the debate between lead candidates, because the party hasn’t officially nominated one Spitzenkandidat—despite the fact that almost no other party seems to take the purely ceremonial system seriously.
The final debate will take place on May 23rd, just two weeks before voting opens for some 400 million people across the EU to elect the next 720 members of the European Parliament.