(ANSA-AP) - BRUSSELS - European voters are choosing lawmakers
to represent them at the European Parliament for the next five
years. In all, 400 million voters in 28 nations have had the
right to vote over the past four days.
Europe's voting marathon kicked off Thursday in the
Netherlands and in Britain. Voters in Ireland turned out on
Friday, and those in the Czech Republic, Latvia, Malta and
Slovakia on Saturday. On Sunday, the remaining 21 EU nations are
casting their ballots. Voters in each EU nation choose some of
the 751 lawmakers in the European Parliament, which sits in both
Brussels and Strasbourg, France. Seats in the European
Parliament are doled out proportionally based on a nation's
population. Cyprus, Luxembourg and Malta have the fewest seats
with six each, while the EU's most populous member, Germany, has
96 seats. The results from every nation will be released on
Sunday after the last polling station in the continent is
closed. (ANSA-AP).
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