“More than 70 seats in the European Parliament have been left vacant since the UK left the EU. Nobody came to Portugal?

A New combination The European Parliament did not please the former PCB MEP Joao Ferreira. “More than 70 seats in the European Parliament were left vacant after the UK left the EU. They were redistributed. None came to Portugal (which lost representatives in the expansions), he commented on the social network X/Twitter on September 17.

The data is confirmed Led by the current communist councilor of the Lisbon city council?

In fact, the UK will leave the European Union in 2020 vacated “73 seats” occupied by the country’s MEPs in the European Parliament, studied in a Information note Published on the website of this European company. This, at the time, led to a reduction in the number of members of the European Parliament – from 751 to the current 705 – “following a redistribution of seats”.

However, the The constitution of the semi-cycle will change again in the post-European election period. Already scheduled for June 2024. The reason for this is that on September 13, The MEPs were approved in plenary session “Council of Europe decision to increase the number of parliamentary seats from 705 to 720 for the next legislature”.

However, as Jono Ferreira puts it, None of these 15 extra seats belong to Portugal, But for other 12 countries. Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Latvia, Austria, Poland, Finland, Slovenia and Slovakia will benefit from one more MEP in the 2024-2029 legislature.

About Portugal Lost MEPs With the continued expansion of the European bloc, this is also happening. The country has been part of the European Union since 1986 (like Spain) and in 1989 it joined the European Parliament with 24 MEPs (rising to 25 in the following assembly).

A new expansion took place with the entry of Austria, Finland and Sweden in 1995 – and Cyprus, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and the Czech Republic in 2004. The Republic entered the European Union. , Portugal lost a parliamentary representative. This was followed in 2007 by the addition of Bulgaria and Romania to the range of member states, and two years later the number of Portuguese MEPs was reduced to 22. This number further decreased in 2014. For the remaining 21 seats, Following the accession of Croatia in 2013.

All these data prove that the social media was promoted by the communist councilor.

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