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Doc. 10543
9 May 2005
UK postal voting system
Motion for a resolution
presented by Mr Margelov and others
This motion has not been discussed in the Assembly and commits only the members who have signed it |
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, concerned by the recent court judgment in Birmingham, UK, condemning malpractices in the UK postal voting system, calls for an investigation by the Venice Commission into postal voting legislation and practices in the UK and their compatibility with the democratic standards of the electoral process in a member state of the Council of Europe.
Signed 1:
MARGELOV, Mikhail, Russia, EDG
ALATALU, Toomas, Estonia, EDG
BENEŠ, Miroslav, Czech Republic, EDG
ÇAVUŞOĞLU, Mevlüt, Turkey, EDG
HUNAULT, Michel, France, EDG
JACYNA-ONYSZKIEWICZ, Zbigniew, Poland, EDG
JIRSA, Tomáš, Czech Republic, EDG
KAZAKOV, Alexandre Ivanovich, Russia, EDG
KOSACHEV, Konstantin, Russia, EDG
KVAKKESTAD, André, Norway, EDG
MESSERSCHMIDT, Morten, Denmark, EDG
MIRZAZADA, Aydin, Azerbaijan, EDG
PIROZHNIKOVA, Liudmila, Russia, EDG
SMIRNOVA, Svetlana, Russia, EDG
TOROSYAN, Tigran, Armenia, EDG
TULAEV, Nikolay, Russia, EDG
ZINGERIS, Emanuelis, Lithuania, EDG
1 SOC: Socialist Group
EPP/CD: Group of the European People’s Party
LDR : Liberal, Democratic and Reformers’ Group
EDG: European Democratic Group
UEL: Group of the Unified European Left
NR: not registered in a group