W sprawie dopuszczalności wprowadzenia okręgów jednomandatowych w wyborach do Parlamentu Europejskiego. Uwagi polemiczne
On the Admissibility of Single-member Constituencies in the Elections to the European Parliament: Polemical Remarks

Summary/Abstract: The article is a polemic with some of the theses presented by Karol Pachnik and Jakub Krajewskiin the article “The Admissibility of Single-member Constituencies in European Parliament ElectionsAct” published in “Przegląd Sejmowy” No 6/2013. The purpose of this article is to answerthe question of whether the introduction of single member constituencies into Polish electoral lawgoverning 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 legitimacyof 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 doesnot lead to a clear conclusion on the admissibility of the introduction of one-mandate constituencieswhile maintaining the proportionality of election results. Therefore, he also analyzes of howthe introduction of single member constituencies while maintaining the proportional nature of thevoting system could look like in practice and points out the consequences of such a reconstructionof the electoral system.

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