Updated on 10/04/2014
This InfoGraphic looks at the forthcoming European elections, comparing key data for each Member State. The elections to the next European Parliament will be held in all EU Member States between 22 and 25 May 2014. Election day (in some Member States still subject to confirmation) is set by each Member State according to its own traditions; in some, voting at European elections is compulsory.
The EP currently, and temporarily, has 766 MEPs. After the 2014 elections, this will be reduced to 751 MEPs. The map provides information on the number of Members to be elected in each Member State including information about voting systems and division into constituencies. The InfoGraphic also provides information about systems in place to allow voting from abroad, on the differing thresholds, of up to 5%, governing the allocation of seats and the minimum age to be eligible to stand as a candidate in the European elections in each Member State.
Read the whole InfoGraphic here
As the leader of Alleanza Liberali (Malta Liberal Party) I wish to bring to the attention of the European Union the way politics are made in Malta especially regarding the elections be it Local Council, General and European Parliament elections. This in the way the two main political parties the Partit Nazzjonalista and the Labour Party control the Electoral Commission, the Broadcasting Authority and all the Media be it TV, Radio, Newspapers, road billboards and all. The way that they already began the electoral campaign for the 2014 EP election and the way they exclude us from participating in all the Media, they do not report our activities, they do not invite us in political debates like we do not exist and so on. I have been reporting this to the OSCE and for the first time the OSCE sent observers for the March 2013 General Elections and the conclusion was as I said and this can be confirmed with their report published at the end of May 2013. After this report still we are passing from the same problems. Can the EU see to this so that in Malta we will have true democratic elections for the first time because all the past elections were biased, some by the interfierence from the Catholic Church and others by the strict control of the main two political parties that they do not allow new or small political parties to have the chance to at least elect one member of the Maltese Parliament or in the European Parliament. Thank you. – Dr. John Zammit – http://www.malta-liberals.org
In Spain is the same. The Individual Freedom Party founded already 4 years ago has even had to fight in court for their General Elections Madrid constituency back in 2011 because the bipartisan political control of all public institution is so ferocious that they could influence on the the Central Electoral Committee to try and prevent us from presenting. Spain hasn¡t had a truely genuine classic liberal party since immemorial times and all the barriers that the system arises is to prevent from reaching civil society: a hidden electoral reform forcing extraparlamentary political parties like P-LIB to go on the streets and gather an enormous amount of individual signatures so they can be allowed to run for elections, signatures that force people to make public a serie of personal date that many aren’t to pleased to do it, not to mention the fact that it can be seen as an understatement that you some who vouch for this or that party, violating to some extent even the secrecy of the vote the Constitution protects for instance. At the same time we are very worried with the EU itself and the fortress they are building in order to keep new parties and new ideas from reaching Brussels and spreading into the European civil society. As Civil Society Movement Secretary at P-LIB I’m always struggling to explain associations and other civil society related entities about the danger of hiperegulation in the EU that burdens and many times makes it impossible for minorities and those of us who do not sanction this way of governing to even have a fair chance to appear as an alternative to the actual status quo of PP and PSOE and their white brands IU, UPyD or Ciudadanos, whicha are all mare socialdemocrats with very small diferences offering the same pillage, lootering and excessive regulation to empower them even more. Roxana Nicula, Civil Movement Secretary at P-LIB: http://www.p-lib.es
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There is a small factual error, the minimum voting age is 16 years in Austria, not 18. The law you need to look at is Europawahlordnung § 10.
Hello Alex,
Our graphic refers to passive voting rights (not active voting rights). This is the official governmental source: http://www.bmi.gv.at/cms/BMI_wahlen/europawahl/Ueberblick.aspx
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