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"Mr President, I voted for the European Parliament resolution of 22 November 2012 on the elections to the European Parliament in 2014. Citizens are directly represented at Union level by Members of the European Parliament and the President of the European Commission is elected by Parliament on a proposal from the European Council, acting by a qualified majority, which must take into account the result of the elections to the European Parliament and which must have held the appropriate consultations before making its nomination.
We call on the future President of the Commission to ensure that a gender balance is achieved within the European Commission and we recommend that each Member State propose both a female and a male candidate for the next College of Commissioners. The European Parliament calls on the Member States to establish in their electoral law, in accordance with Article 3 of the Act concerning the election of the representatives of the Assembly by direct universal suffrage, appropriate and proportionate minimum thresholds for the allocation of seats so as to duly reflect the citizens’ choices, as expressed in the elections, while also effectively safeguarding the functionality of Parliament. Nevertheless, I am against holding the European Parliament elections in May."@en1
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