The European Parliament - function - composition

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Minimum and maximun per member state parliament

Minimum of 6 seats per member state and maximum of 96 seat per member state

Democratic and federal principles degressive proportional system

  • Democratic principle require every citizen in the union to have equal voting right (one person, one vote)
  • federal principle insist on the political existence of states


the comprise of between these principles reject a purely proportional distribution and in favor of a degressive proportional system

Individual members of parliament are elected for how many years

5 years by direct universal suffrage (kiesrecht) by a free and secret ballot
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The treaties call for one common rule of the parliament elections

The right to vote and right to candidacy in elections

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