Mandatory voting as a remedy to increase electoral tumout: an appropriate solution to be applied in the European Parliament elections?
Mandatory voting as a remedy to increase electoral tumout: an appropriate solution to be applied in the European Parliament elections?

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyse compulsory voting including sanctions for non voting. The article explores elections to the European Parliament, decreasing turnout and an idea of introducing compulsory voting in European elections. Nowadays twenty nine states recognise compulsory voting. In Europe seven countries, including Turkey, introduced it. High people’s participation in elections is typical for the states with compulsory voting. This situation is observed especially in case of European elections, where turnout is systematically diminishing. One of succesful solution for increasing turnout can be introducing of compulsory voting. This would also result in strenghtening role of the European Parliament towards Commission and Council. It would also cause establishing more harmonized political landscape of the the EU.

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