Traduction de «polling day » (Anglais → Français) :

European elections are regulated by the 1976 Act[1] on the election of the members of the European Parliament by direct universal suffrage, as amended by Council Decision 2002/772/EC, Euratom[2], which lays down some common principles for all Member States, such as the obligation to use proportional representation and to ensure that polling day falls within the same period starting on a Thursday and ending on the following Sunday.

With regard to the issue of timing, the Directive merely provides for the data to be sent ‘sufficiently in advance of polling day’.

C. stressing that the IEOM highlighted widespread irregularities, both during the campaign (for example, abuse of State resources in favour of Yanukovych, abuse of power against some citizens whose livelihood depends directly or indirectly upon the State, inaccurate voting lists and reluctance on the part of the Central Election Commission to respond to complaints) and on polling day (for example, intimidation of polling station committee members, the presence of police and unauthorised persons at polling stations, a high number of additional voters using absentee certificates, some of whom were bussed in in a number of regions) and poi ...[+++]nted to problems during the count, such as insufficient attention to ballot security and counting procedures,

The calmness of the population on polling day and the high turnout demonstrated a civic commitment which should be praised.

Another necessary step is to extend that strategy to every stage of the intervention in the observation which precedes and accompanies the elections, because the democratic process is not exhausted on polling day.

Your rapporteur believes that there should be a ban on the publication of opinion polls relating to the European elections in the last two weeks before polling day.