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The European Parliament ( EP) is one of the three legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts European legislation, following a proposal by the European Commission.
Elections to the European Parliamenttake place every five years by universal adult suffrage; with more than 400 million people eligible to vote, they are the second largest democratic elections in the world after India's. [1] Until 2019, 751 MEPs[2]were elected to the European Parliament, which has been directly elected since 1979.
In some elections, the natural threshold may be higher than the legal threshold. In Spain, the legal threshold is 3 percent of valid votes—which included blank ballots—with most constituencies having less than 10 deputies, including Soria with only two. Another example of this effect are elections to the European Parliament.
It was the tenth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979, and the first European Parliament election after Brexit. [5] [6] A total of 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) were elected to represent more than 450 million people from 27 member states .
On May 3, 2022, the European Parliament passed (323 votes to 262) a "legislative resolution on the reform of European electoral law". Among the proposals is the creation of a 28-member pan-Union constituency elected by party-list proportional representation on a list separate from elections for regional constituencies.
The political groups of the European Parliament are the officially recognised parliamentary groups consisting of legislators of aligned ideologies in the European Parliament. The European Parliament is unique among supranational assemblies in that its members (MEPs) organise themselves into ideological groups, rather than national cleavages. [1]
t. e. A parliamentary system, or parliamentary democracy, is a system of democratic government where the head of government (who may also be the head of state) derives their democratic legitimacy from their ability to command the support ("confidence") of the legislature, typically a parliament, to which they are accountable.
The 2024 European Parliament election was held between 6 and 9 June 2024 to elect 720 members of the European Parliament (MEP). [1] [2]