43As the Advocate General observed, in essence, in point 30 of her Opinion, the right to stand as a candidate at elections to the European Parliament constitutes the expression of the principle of universal suffrage, a principle which is enshrined, in the same way as direct suffrage in a free and secret ballot, in Article 14(3) TEU and reiterated in Article 39(2) of the Charter (see, to that effect, judgment of 19 December 2019, Junqueras Vies, C‑502/19, EU:C:2019:1115, paragraph 86).
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