Polish MEP-nationalist Janusz Korwin-Mikke can be punished after he made offensive statements about women.
“And, of course, women should earn less than men because they are weaker, they are smaller, they are less intelligent,” he said in the debate in the European Parliament.
According to the video distributed in social networks, Korwin-mikke said the Spanish Deputy Irate Garcia-Perez. According to her, its annoying that women can be members of Parliament and have the same rights as him.
“I’m here to protect European women from men like you,” she said.
The President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani now clarifies, is not violated if Korwin-mikke their statement the rules of the Convention, which prohibits offensive, racist or xenophobic remarks and behavior.
A group of Democrats and socialists in the European Parliament have asked the President to punish Korwin-mikke for his comments. The punishment for such behavior range from a reprimand to a temporary suspension of the authority, said Bi-bi-si, the press service of European Parliament.
Last year the Deputy was deprived of salary for 10 days (more than 3 thousand euros) and froze its mandate for five days because he compared the influx of migrants to Europe with excrement. In October 2015, he was suspended for 10 days for the Nazi salute in the Parliament building.
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