European parliament was so weak before the Election, and the members were inactive. They worked part-time, did not pay attention to the functional works. To improve the condition, First Election in the History of the European Parliament was held. It completely changed the scenario of the European Parliament. Members were elected. The European Parliament was online observant to the businessman for the donation to the Nigel Farage.
Nigel Farage was the man who rejects to indulge in any wrong activity for their party. He believes that his party was efficient enough to stand in the competition with the other political parties. He was investigated for the funds made by banks to him. He denied all the funds as he was so skilled to grow his party.
How the European Parliament Investigated Nigel Farage?
Nigel Farage was a British Politician who was born on 3 April 1964. He is presently the head of Brexit Party. Since 1999 he the active member of the east Europian parliament. He was also the vice leader of the pro-Brexit organization. He was the leading and amazing leader of the UK Independence Party from 2006 to 2016.
Nigel Farage failed to declare the expenses Fund to him by Arron bank. He was investigated by UK’s watchdog, i.e. its data.
Channel 4 News revealed this fact about the Nigel Farage that he has been funded £13,000, a car with driver, a house by the Arron bank.
Urgent Investigation has been carried out by the Liberal Democrat MEP Catherine Bearder who was also known as Parliamentary Authorities. One of the quaestors from the parliament in south England said that it seems that he is getting a lot of money from the third party.
Nigel Farage was one of the top richest men in the parliament list. Beside a €102,000-a-year MEP salary, his external income was so high approximately €700,00 that he gained from media.
The Election Of Europian Parliament
The election in the Europian parliament held after every five years. General suffrage vote to elect the president of the parliament. It involves almost 400 million eligible electorates to vote. It is the largest election in the world. On the principle of degressive proportionality, the seat is allowed to the members of the legislative bodies. The number of MEPs elected by each country was different. It had been noticed that the small states elect more MEP in comparison to their state population. The seats were allocated randomly to the members there was not any such formula for that.
The election was not based on any particular voting system. People were elected by the General suffrage or common suffrage. The electoral bodies were further divided into units, and members were elected from that unit.
So that was the first election to take place at that time. And 413 MEP’s were to be elected. The election was held in 1979. Which made the condition of Europian Parliament even better, and it became an efficient body. Social parties also actively participated in the election.