Published: December 9th, 2022,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025
The CDU’s women’s quota diminishes the prospects of several male MEPs returning to Parliament. Elections will be held sometime in May or June 2024; the exact date has not yet been set. But the jockeying for promising positions on the state lists has already begun – especially in the state associations of North Rhine-Westphalia, Lower Saxony and Baden-Württemberg.