Women in the elections of the European Parliament

He was a SYRIZA candidate for the European Parliament in the elections of 25 May 2014.

It performed disastrously in recent elections for local councils and the European parliament.

The system was first used in the 2009 election of Members of the European Parliament.

In the 2009 European Parliament election he won a seat in the European Parliament with Finland's highest personal vote share (nearly 10 of all votes), becoming the first member of the Finns Party in the European Parliament.

At age 91, he was also the oldest person elected to the European Parliament in the 2014 election.

As the United Kingdom is a member of the European Union, there are elections held regionally in England to decide who is sent as Members of the European Parliament.

She returned to the national Parliament in the elections of 2003, and in 2009, she was re elected to the European Parliament.

The provisions had been implemented for the first time in elections to the European Parliament and had resulted in an increase in the number of Italian women parliamentarians.

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The party eventually received 7.1 of the vote in the 7th June election, and won a seat in the European Parliament.

One idea making the rounds is for the European Parliament to define the ECB s objectives, on the basis that it is democratically elected as if the Maastricht Treaty did not result from a democratic process.

The remaining two posts, president of the European Parliament and the Mr. Euro job currently held by Juncker, will also have to contribute to overall balance and reflect the outcome of the European Parliament elections in mid 2009.

In the European Parliament election of 2009 the Swedish Pirate Party received 7.1 percent of the votes, winning two seats and achieving the first major success of a Pirate Party in an election.

If its leadership can build on this success, the AfD will make news in next spring s European Parliament elections.

The 2004 elections for the European Parliament had already shown that the level of discontent with the Union was high.

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EU Profiler Together with the European University Institute and the Swiss Smartvote, Electoral Compass is creating the EU Profiler, a voting advice website for the upcoming European Parliament election in 2009.

Following the 2004 elections, the European People s Party (EPP), which regroups right and center right parties, held 288 MPs of the Parliament s 785 seats.

The answer is not nearly enough, and the political price may be high at next summer s European Parliament elections.

Failure to do so would bring the risk of still greater political problems after next June s European elections.

Strong pan European center right and center left political parties are likely to contest the European Parliament elections in the spring of 2009.

This is one of the lowest thresholds for national parliament elections in the world.

A process of escalating alienation and indifference between the Union and its citizens is at work, illustrated by low turnout in the last European Parliament elections.

He resigned only after winning election to parliament.

The European Parliament has, indeed, taken the lead.

In this environment, the upcoming European Parliament elections seem tailor made for extremist parties, with recent public opinion polls suggesting that the National Front will come out on top in France.

In fact, if, on the eve of the 2009 European Parliament elections, the new Reform Treaty enters into force, each member country will be forced to clarify and justify its position.

In response, protesters have staged a parliament sit in until the resignation of parliament members and elections are held.

If these efforts fail, a dissolution of parliament and a fresh election may be the last resort.

The first was the election in February 1974, and the ensuing parliament lasted only until October.

After the 1976 federal elections, which made the CDU CSU the largest group in parliament, Carstens was elected president of the Bundestag on 14 December 1976.

The regulation is expected to be adopted by the European Parliament and the European Council in 2006.

Qatar today announced it will hold parliamentary elections in the second half of 2013.

It contested the 1979 and 1983 elections to Lagtinget , without winning any seat.

PARIS In each of the 27 states of the European Union, the campaign for the just concluded elections for the European Parliament occurred in an atmosphere of indifference, with voters, candidates, and the media focusing mostly on domestic issues.

In 2004, Pahor was elected as member of the European Parliament.

Resolutions 2000 2249 and 2002 2044 of the European Parliament

In the 2002 elections, 35 women had been elected to Parliament, and there were two women ministers in the present Government.

But this does not mean that the European Parliament is a real parliament.

Estonia has six members in the European Parliament, currently two of them are women.

EU parliamentarians voted overwhelmingly to outlaw patio heaters, which one MEP declared to be a luxury the planet cannot afford.

Such a government would back a eurozone strategy, led by Germany and France, that focuses on growth and employment, which would infuse some constructive enthusiasm into the 2014 European Parliament election.

Exponents of the Northern League, such as MEP Mario Borghezio, MP Roberto Cota, and Senator Federico Bricolo, are well known for their xenophobic statements in Parliament, particularly against those from non EU countries.