Party's candidate on Athens' mayoral elections Kostas Mpakogiannis arrives at the Old Parliament square in Athens, Greece. European voters are electing 751 lawmakers, with each nation apportioned a number of seats based on its population as anti-immigrant and far-right groups are hoping to gain ground in Brussels to transfer power from the EU for their national governments. Greece's opposition New Democracy party took a commanding lead over the ruling leftist Syriza.