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"Mr President, I thank you on behalf of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Equal Opportunities, which I have the honour of chairing, for the statement you made on the occasion of International Women’s Day and for the emphasis which you and other honourable Members placed on the fact that there must be a balanced representation of women and men in the European Parliament to come out of the elections in June. Nonetheless, I have already received a very serious complaint from the women’s organisations in Malta, which inform us that the leaders of the political parties are already compiling their lists without including a single woman. I wonder if the population of Malta consists only of men and not women.
I should like to ask you, in honour of today’s International Women’s Day, to intervene personally in this matter and to remind the political leaders of Malta that they must respect the principle of gender equality and the
; otherwise their position in the European Union looks set to be very problematic."@en1
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