EU regulations state that Euro-Citizens
living in a Euro State other than their national State should
be able to choose to vote either for an MEP standing in their
National State or for one standing in their Resident State.
Huge numbers of British Citizens
resident outside the UK
will have no choice.
They can only choose an MEP candidate
standing within the State where they live. This is because of
the 15 year limit rule on voting imposed by the UK
Government, In other words the British
Government is preventing the British citizens exercising
their democrat right to choose the candidate they desire
as their representative member in the Euro Parliament.
This is wrong!
Stuck with this situation the
British Citizen must choose MEPs from the local lists.
(Some countries only elect on a list system).
Few will know who is who and what
list is what. What are their policies?
To help the decision the following
link will reveal the names of candidates and lists country
by country. You click on the appropriate flag when the
first page appears.
For the candidates in France
(for les députés du Parlement européen)
the subsequent link is as follows. Other countries
can be selected as above.
To learn more about the publicity
coming from each candidate/list it is helpful to sign up
to ‘yatterbox’, and to select ‘alerts’
- then one needs to think of a subject for the 'alert' - not easy! Try 'MEP' or 'European Parliament elections'.
- then one needs to think of a subject for the 'alert' - not easy! Try 'MEP' or 'European Parliament elections'.
Undoubtedly it will be very
difficult to know which candidate to choose on May 22nd.
Most British Citizens beyond the UK will be quite at a loss with almost zero information at hand to help.
Most British Citizens beyond the UK will be quite at a loss with almost zero information at hand to help.
THE
EU Presidency
There will be some televised debates
concerning the election from the ‘lists’ of a President of the
EU, notably on 15 May. This should be broadcast by the BBC
and it is expected that most speakers will speak in English.
There will a previous one on May 9th..
The chairman will be English (Tony Barber of the Financial
Times) but it is not clear how much is in English.
The following link helps to explain the
above -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament_election,_2014
Action you can take.... Copy the material above with a covering note of introduction to the Minister responsible for Parliamentary Reform [I would value a copy - to lefourquet@gmail.com ]
Greg Clark MP -- publiccorrespondence@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk
or to the Policy Support Officer at the Cabinet Office (a civil servant who will forward your message) --- Donna.Smith1@cabinet-office.gsi.gov.uk
