European parliament’s constitutional committee has provisionally recommended extra seat
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Seán Kelly, the Fine Gael MEP for South, is the only Irish representative on Afco and says the final decision on extra seats being allotted to countries will be made by the committee on May 10th. If passed there will then be a full plenary vote in the parliament during June. In the early years of the Republic’s membership of the European Economic Community the Republic elected as many as 22 MEPs. However, with successive expansions of the union, the number fell to 15 during the 1990s and then as low as 11 after the significant expansion of the union after 2004.In the last parliamentary elections in 2019, the numbers increased by two to 13, when the United Kingdom’s seats were reallocated after it left the bloc.
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