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A European Parliament directly elected by universal suffrage is a key element in the constitutional order of the European Union. During the long negotiations on treaty revision, the EU made substantial progress in establishing the basic conditions for uniform elections to the European Parliament, despite the absence of a single electoral law. Several of the problems encountered by previous rapporteurs concerning this issue have been dealt with satisfactorily. There is another category of issues that might have appeared problematic at the start of the exercise to introduce direct elections, but, with the benefit of experience, this is no longer the case. These include the eligibility of independent candidates and control of election expenses. Parliament’s importance and powers have grown substantially since 1979. The Treaty of Lisbon, which has at last entered into force, has made MEPs much more powerful. In this respect, Parliament both needs and deserves an electoral system and an internal organisation which are commensurate with its new duties. There is clearly still a significant number of important questions of electoral procedure which, if addressed effectively, would make future elections to Parliament more uniform than they have been in the past, and should bring benefits in terms of cohesion, legitimacy, efficiency and pluralism. It may well be that the time has come to look more seriously at developing a mathematical formula for the distribution of seats which will be durable, transparent and politically impartial."@en1
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