- Generation2004 has been participating in the Local Staff Committee elections in the COMMISSION IN LUXEMBOURG and in the European Parliament. In Luxembourg, Generation2004 scored 19.96% of the votes which is a remarkable result for a group that entered the election campaign only three weeks ago. However, due to the design of the voting system, which in our view rewards excessively the formation of majorities, this figure translates only into 2 seats out of 20 (i.e. 10%), while proportionality would have justified 4. We firmly believe that this electoral system with its incomprehensible vote counting, gerrymandered (or tailor-made) for one single big union ‒ who got (only) 36% of votes, but took 65% of the seats (13 all together) ‒ should be radically changed.
- Still, thanks to the remarkable success of our Luxembourg Group, G2004 has now achieved 16.24% overall representativeness Commission-wide. We are now the third strongest group, after USF and Alliance, and the SECOND STRONGEST INDIVIDUAL PROFESSIONAL STAFF ORGANISATION in the Commission.
- In the European Parliament, staff committee elections do not use a proportional system either. Had this been the case ‒ given that more than 10% of the colleagues who voted ticked the G 2004 box ‒ there would have been a couple of voices from our list elected. Taken individually our result represents the third highest number of voters, all lists considered. However, another very peculiar electoral system, tailormade to maintain the status quo by raising the barriers to entry for newcomers, translates those (roughly) 10.5% of expressed votes into an alleged “3.4%” score. We feel that we owe this explanation to all our voters who may be disappointed to see that they will not be represented in the upcoming Staff Committee – and there is certainly something wrong with a system that allows roughly 10.5% of the expressed votes not to be represented at all.
- SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS to both groups and MANY THANKS to the VOTERS for supporting us and to ALL CANDIDATES for their contributions and positive energy overflowing all over the campaigns.
