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"en.20120313.17.2-312-000"2
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"Political parties play a vital role in encouraging the participation of women in politics. Political parties have the right to recruit, select and appoint candidates, irrespective of the electoral system. We must therefore address the issue of women’s under-representation in politics and guide political parties and their positions and strategies so that they apply principles enabling greater participation of women when setting up decision-making bodies. I appreciate that this report calls on political parties in the Member States to adopt measures for the greater participation of women in politics, but I do not agree with the call to establish quotas. On the contrary, I am a supporter of looser forms of regulation in the form of targets and more general rules for determining the ordering of candidate lists for national elections and elections at EU level. One possible incentive might be an obligation for parties to fulfil certain targets in the area of equal representation as a precondition for the granting of funds to the party. In these circumstances, I consider it important to note that the European Parliament, comprising 35% women and 65% men, has the most balanced gender representation."@en1
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