[pp.int.general] Working for EU elections

[Carlos Ayala]

De: Jens Seipenbusch <seipenbusch at web.de>
Enviado: viernes, 14 de noviembre, 2008 12:12:37
> In fact we are quite advanced in the formal progress, so we already have officially determined the
> candidates of the german party

We in PIRATA prefer to wait until having collected the required amount of signatures -15.000 by law, 20.000 is our goal to manage enough margin (just in case of the National Election Board massively annuling many of them)- to summon a National Assembly meeting to elect our candidates. We weren't able to concur to last 9-M General Election in Spain, so it would be painful for us to elect candidates only to find ourselves not having enough signatures to concur.

If we get the required signatures, we would summon the National Assembly meeting by the end of march.

> This severly challenges the calculation of 19by5 which we made in Uppsala, where i wasnt sure, if
> that was the fact or not

It's not the fact anymore.

Few months ago it was changed to eliminate 1 or 2 of the current 7 parliamentary groups, so formerly it was a fifth (5 out of 25) and now it's a fourth (7 out of 27) the required amount of countries where a party/party coalition must have representatives in order to create a group; also, required MPs are increased from 19 to 25. These changes were rejected by all minoritary groups (5 out of 7), only being supported by EPP-ED and PES -I say only with italic as they together have the vast majority of MEPs-; thus, the changes were passed by the European Parliament.

Here you have some info concerning this issue. Regards,


                                                                      Carlos Ayala
                                                                      ( Aiarakoa )

                                                Partido Pirata National Board's Chairman



      
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