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European and local elections are tomorrow - please make sure you vote! The strength of our democracy is built upon participation and it’s your chance to have a say. It’s quite shocking just how low the turnout for European elections typically are, especially as over the last few years power has been moving from Westminster to Brussels - the European Constitution/Lisbon treaty being one example.

I think it’s especially important that people vote because the EU elections work on proportional representation which means it’s a lot easier for smaller, minority views to get represented.

Now, many people have told me that they aren’t interested in politics at all - they don’t know who to vote for. I recommend taking a short 5 minute test over at Euprofiler.eu. It takes only 5 minutes - answer a couple of questions and it’ll tell you how the views of the major parties align with your views.

Is it independent?
The EU Profiler is an academic project, unaffiliated with any party, candidate, government or branch of the EU. It has been entirely funded by the three consortium institutions - the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RCAS), part of the European University Institute (EUI); Kieskompas and the NCCR Democracy (University of Zurich/Zentrum für Demokratie Aarau)/Politools network.
The tool was designed in such a way as to allow complete impartiality. Information was gathered by respected experts in European politics and at no point were political parties in a position to influence the composition of either the tool itself or the information provided by it.

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