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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8720

8 June 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/elections/women
35.13% of candidates to this week's elections are women - 28.17% of women in Parliament are outgoing

Brussels, 07/06/2004 (Agence Europe) - Out of 14,670 candidates running for the 732 seats in European elections this week, 35.13% (5,153) are women and 64,87% (9,517) are men (we recall that the number of seats is reduced in these elections, after having been 788 in May, to take in the representatives/observers of the ten new Member States). The outgoing Parliament of 788 representatives includes 222 women (28.17%). Since the first European elections in 1979, this percentage has constantly...

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