UK has duty of holding MEP elections if Brexit is delayed beyond May

The U.K. has a “duty” to hold European elections if Brexit is delayed beyond the EU poll in May, according to Polish MEP Danuta Hübner, who is a member of the Parliament’s Brexit Steering Group.

Speaking before members of the influential Constitutional Affairs Committee, Hübner said an EU country is responsible for “ensuring that citizens have their representatives in the European Parliament.”

The senior MEP said the U.K. would face a legal challenge in the European Court of Justice if it denied its citizens representation in the European Parliament while still a member of the EU.

Any refusal from the U.K. to hold elections would also mean a “breach of EU treaties and EU electoral law,” and “can be brought to court,” she said, “but let’s hope that this situation will not happen.”

via Politico