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Strengthening the right to participate: legitimacy and resilience of electoral processes in illiberal political systems and authoritarian regimes

2022/2154(INI)·9th term·AFET·INI - Own-initiative procedure·CompletedProcedure completed

Subjects: Fundamental freedoms, human rights, democracy in general · Human rights situation in the world

Rapporteur (the Member appointed to lead Parliament's work on this text): SÁNCHEZ AMOR Nacho (S&D)

Summary

An own-initiative report on strengthening the right to participate, covering electoral processes in illiberal political systems and authoritarian regimes. The amendments revise recitals on the right to vote and stand for election, democratic backsliding and illiberalism within the EU, media freedom and ownership transparency, sham elections and disqualification of opposition candidates, fake international election observation, and attacks on non-partisan election observers.

Procedure timeline

Committee amendments tabled
28 Jul 2023 – 9 Oct 2023
Plenary vote — Passed
9 Nov 2023 · On the motion for a resolution
Procedure completed

137

Amendments

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Members

tabled at least one

Committee(s)

28 Jul 2023 – 9 Oct 2023

Dates

Plenary votes

1 roll-call votes

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9 Nov 2023Main votePassedoutcome from totals
On the motion for a resolution
Official label: Proposition de résolution · what was voted ↗
522 for27 against53 abstentions100 did not vote
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