114As the Advocate General stated, in essence, in point 101 of his Opinion, Article 10 TEU underscores, as regards elections to the European Parliament, the connection between the principle of representative democracy within the European Union and the right to vote and to stand as a candidate in European Parliament elections attached to citizenship of the Union, guaranteed by Article 22(2) TFEU.
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