"The president vetoed amendments to the electoral code that introduced changes into the [election] regulations to the European Parliament," the chancellery wrote on Twitter.
Duda said that he did not sign the bill proposed by PiS and returned it into the parliament for reconsideration.
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He said that the proposed provisions aimed at increasing the threshold to receive seats in the European Parliament from 5 percent to a double-digit figure, which would leave a huge proportion of citizens without representation in the EP and would benefit only the two biggest parties.
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