Negotiators from the EPP, S&D, Renew Europe and Greens/EFA groups in the European Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Affairs reached an agreement on Tuesday evening (8 March) on the creation of a European constituency that would allow all Europeans, in addition to the classic election at national level, to elect 28 MEPs in the 2024 European elections.
The informal agreement, which still has to pass through the parliamentary committee on 28 March and the Parliament’s plenary session probably in April, was confirmed to EUROPE on Wednesday 9 March by Domènec Ruiz Devesa (S&D, Spain), rapporteur on the reform of the EU’s electoral law (see EUROPE 12881/1). It was described as “historic” by German Damian Boeselager, negotiator for the Greens/EFA group and himself the only representative in the Parliament of the pan-European Volt party, which campaigns for greater European democracy.
In addition to European political parties, movements and coalitions organised at European level will be able to present their own transnational and parity list, Boeselager said.
The distribution of the first fourteen candidates of a transnational list would follow a specific rule in order to allow a balanced representation of the elected representatives according to their geographical origin. As such, three groups of Member States would be created according to their population size, but these groups would not incorporate an identical number of countries. Inclusion on a transnational list would be based on trios of candidates from each of the three groups of countries mentioned above. (Original version in French by Mathieu Bion)