Brussels, 11/03/2014 (Agence Europe) - A legislative resolution on gender equality was rejected by nine votes by the European Parliament on Tuesday 11 March. The face of its author, Ines Zuber (GUE, Portugal), fell as the result of the votes were read out (298 against, 289 in favour and 87 abstentions), in a similar reaction to that of Edit Estrela (S&D, Portugal) a few months earlier, when her report on sexual and reproductive rights was rejected by the European Parliament.
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