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EU plan to break British tradition and impose Sunday voting
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| Billsticker | Date: Tuesday, 2013-03-12, 5:50 PM | Message # 1 |
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| EU plan to break British tradition and impose Sunday voting
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Proposals also mean that Britons should get ready for television party political broadcasts urging them to choose the next President of the European Commission.
Viviane Reding, the vice-president of the European Commission, heralded the proposals as taster of things to come in a new treaty that would move the EU closer to becoming a fully fledged federation.
"We are at a key moment of European integration with treaty changes coming up soon and a European federation at our political horizon. It is important to give citizens and companies a perspective on what Europe will look like in 2020," she said. "The 2014 European Parliament elections will prepare the ground."
Recommendations from the European Commission propose that Europe has a common voting day for the 2014 elections to the EU assembly. Britain currently votes on Thursday, while most of Europe votes on the Sunday.
The last time a British election was not held on a Thursday was in 1931 when polling was on a Tuesday. The last weekend election was in 1918 on a Saturday. "A common European voting day with polling stations closing at the same time would better reflect common participation by citizens across the union and therefore is part of the representative democracy on which the EU is founded," the proposal said.
A change to the voting date could cause a collapse of turnout in Britain if a vote is held on a Sunday against the national tradition of polling days on a Thursday, or on a different date to council elections. Nigel Farage, the leader of Ukip, said: "We absolutely oppose a common voting day for euro elections and would be appalled if local elections were held on a different day."
The proposal could force David Cameron, the Prime Minister, to wield his veto as only Britain and Holland hold the EU elections on Thursday. Ireland and the Czech Republic hold the euro vote on Friday. Cyprus, France, Italy Latvia, Malta, and Slovakia hold the polling day on Saturday and all other 17 EU countries hold it on Sunday.
The proposed plans also require Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Ukip party political broadcasts to ask voters to choose between candidates for president of the European Union's Brussels executive during euro-elections next May. "European and national political parties should make known, ahead of the elections to the European Parliament, the candidate for the function of the President of the European Commission they support," the EC proposal has suggested.
"National political parties should ensure that their political broadcasts in view of the European Parliament elections are also used to inform citizens about the candidate they support." The Conservatives have rejected the proposals. Ashley Fox MEP, Conservative spokesman on EU constitutional Affairs, said: "There is no need for an elected President of Europe because there is no country called Europe. Only sovereign countries need an elected head of state, whereas the EU is an international organisation."
The proposal includes the requirement that national parties must state their affiliation to European political parties, which are not well known in Britain or elsewhere in Europe. "National political parties participating in the elections to the European Parliament should make publicly known ahead of those elections their affiliation with European political parties," the proposal says.
"National political parties should prominently display their affiliation with European political parties in all campaign materials, communications and political broadcasts." Under the Lisbon Treaty, the next president of the commission will be the candidate selected by the European political party with the most votes in the euro elections.
"It would increase the legitimacy of the president of the commission and more generally, the democratic legitimacy of the whole EU decision-making process," says the proposal. "It could also contribute to raising the turnout for European elections by strengthening the link between the election of the representatives of the citizens with the selection and election process of the head of the European executive."
Since the first direct elections to the European Parliament in 1979 turnout has declined in each successive vote. Ahead of the elections next year, the parliament has increased spending for the EU's political parties, such as the European People's Party (EPP) and Party of European Socialists.
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| Culzie | Date: Tuesday, 2013-03-12, 9:22 PM | Message # 2 |
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| From the word go that has always been the aim... a United States of Europe. America has been the prime mover behind this. Tradition nowdays is a ' dirty' word.
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