1 Amendments of Sandrine BÉLIER related to 2009/2134(INI)
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Proposes that an additional 257 MEPs will be elected by a single constituency formed of the whole territory of the European Union; transnational lists will be composed of candidates drawn from at least one thirdll of the States, and will be gender-balanced; each elector will be enabled to cast one vote for the EU-wide 1 The Sainte-Laguë method uses divisors of 1, 3, 5, 7, etc, and was used in the 2009 European elections in Germany, Latvia and Sweden. It produces a slightly more proportional result than the D'Hondt method. list in addition to their vote for the national or regional list: voting for the EU constituency will be in accordance with the preferential semi-open list system (whereby votes are allotted either to the party list or to individual candidates within a list); and seats will be allocated in accordance with the Sainte- Laguë method1; further, proposes that an electoral authority will be established at EU level in order to regulate the conduct and to verify the result of the election taking place from the EU- wide list;