Irish and Czech voters go to the polls on Day 2 of EU elections

Voters in Ireland and the Czech Republic, two countries where immigration was a key issue on the campaign trail, took to the polls on Friday, the second day of the balloting for the European Parliament. A surge of the far-right across the 27-nation bloc was likely to emerge from the electoral marathon.
Final results will not be released until Sunday night, once voting is completed in every country. However, an exit poll on Thursday after the elections kicked off in the Netherlands confirmed that Geert Wilders’ far-right PVV party would likely make big gains.
Although a coalition of pro-European parties pushed the PVV into second place amid a bigger turnout than at the previous EU elections, Wilders’ party looked to have made the biggest gains of the night.