As the June vote approaches, Euronews asks voters to name a proposal they would make if elected to the European Parliament, and questions candidates on what they pledge to do if elected or re-elected.
In this episode Euronews interviews a citizen and a candidate on the number of European deputies. Tany, a Spanish farmer, wants to remove a certain number of European deputies. If he were a candidate, Tany would get rid of “half, or even more, of the number of MEPs that we currently have or maintain.”
Gilles Mentré is a candidate for Le Center in France. He wants European deputies in France to be elected by department. “There are 101 French departments and 81 MEPs. So there will be one MEP per department or section of departments. These will be the local MEPs that farmers, small business owners, local officials and students will be able to go to see to ask questions, to find out how to access grants, to make their voices heard and to demand accountability.”
