Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2007-02-13-Speech-2-087"
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"We fully share the view that Turkey, like other candidate countries, must establish a democratic constitutional state with full human rights and gender equality.
However, we are critical of quite a few individual points in the report. For example, it is absurd for the European Parliament to propose that a mandatory quota system be adopted, ensuring fair representation of women on election lists (paragraph 41), that the Turkish political parties adopt internal rules guaranteeing the presence of women in their management bodies at all levels (paragraph 43) and that the political parties in Turkey include more female candidates on election lists (paragraph 44). The EU does not impose this type of requirement on other candidate countries or on existing Member States. It is self-evidently absurd for a candidate country to be treated differently through the formulation of special requirements. Moreover, it is, in the end, for individual countries to decide what type of measures are to be taken to strengthen the role of women in society.
On the basis of the above reasoning, we have each chosen to abstain in the final vote."@en1
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