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"en.20031106.6.4-074"2
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"Voting against this report should not, of course, be construed as any show of hostility towards the representation of women in politics.
Apart from the fact that the general philosophy of the report – namely, positive discrimination – is contrary to the constitutional traditions of certain Member States and, in particular, to the republican universalism on which French law is based, rejection of this document is based solely upon respect for the distribution of competences between the EU and the Member States.
In the event, and in the absence of a uniform electoral procedure, the European Union has no competence at all to intervene, as this report invites it to do, in defining the rules governing the organisation of the European elections.
As a result, the European Parliament cannot legitimately ask the national political parties ‘to introduce quota systems, such as [what is known as] the zipper system’, whereby men and women appear alternately on the lists, ‘and/or [to] take measures so as to promote a balance in participation’ or to ask the Commission to distribute information on the mysterious concept of ‘parity democracy’ or to urge the funding of ‘awareness raising campaigns’ on the subject."@en1
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