W sprawie dopuszczalności wprowadzenia okręgów jednomandatowych w wyborach do Parlamentu Europejskiego. Uwagi polemiczne

• Authors: Marcin Rulka

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On the Admissibility of Single-member Constituencies in the Elections to the European Parliament: Polemical Remarks

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The article is a polemic with some of the theses presented by Karol Pachnik and Jakub Krajewski in the article “The Admissibility of Single-member Constituencies in European Parliament Elections Act” published in “Przegląd Sejmowy” No 6/2013. The purpose of this article is to answer the question of whether the introduction of single-member constituencies into Polish electoral law governing elections to the European Parliament is in accordance with the law of a higher rank and, above all, with EU law. After addressing the importance of the European Parliament for the legitimacy of the EU, the former and existing legal regulation of the elections to the European Parliament, the author fi nds that an analysis of the rules of EU law concerning the electoral system does not lead to a clear conclusion on the admissibility of the introduction of one-mandate constituencies while maintaining the proportionality of election results. Therefore, he also analyzes of how the introduction of single-member constituencies while maintaining the proportional nature of the voting system could look like in practice and points out the consequences of such a reconstruction of the electoral system.

Keywords

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one-seat constituencies; electoral system; elections to the European Parliament

• Publisher: Kancelaria Sejmu / Chancellery of the Sejm
• Journal: Przegląd Sejmowy
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 4(123)
• Pages: 23-36

Contributors

author

Marcin Rulka

• Mgr, Uniwersytet Łódzki