Fidias Panayiotou Exposes Lack of Transparency in EU Parliament Voting Procedures

In this video, MEP Fidias Panayiotou discusses how members of the European Parliament (MEPs) cast their votes and raises serious concerns about the transparency of the voting process within the EU Parliament. He rightly argues that the system lacks accountability and openness, a claim that he underscores by titling the video “What Europe Doesn’t Want You to See.”

Fidias explains that there are two methods of voting in the European Parliament: electronic voting and voting by show of hands. While the electronic system offers a recorded and verifiable trail of how each MEP voted, the show-of-hands method does not. He identifies this second method as particularly problematic. According to Fidias, the hand-raising vote is vulnerable to miscounts and lacks any formal record, making verifying how individual MEPs voted on specific issues virtually impossible.

This absence of transparency, he suggests, opens the door to potential manipulation and undermines public trust in the democratic process at the EU level. The video serves as both a critique of parliamentary procedure and a call for greater scrutiny and reform in how decisions are recorded and made in Europe’s legislative body.

Fidias Panayiotou, also known simply as Fidias, is a Cypriot YouTuber and politician. Born on April 10, 2000, in Meniko, Nicosia, Cyprus, he gained prominence through his YouTube channel and undertook various challenges and vlogs. In April 2024, Fidias announced his candidacy for the European Parliament as an independent, aiming to promote youth involvement in politics. He was elected as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in June 2024, securing 19.4% of the vote.