translate English to French: One shudders to think of parliaments in which the main criterion of membership is to belong to a group in need of affirmative action.
On frÃ©mit Ã l'idÃ©e de parlements oÃ¹ le principal critÃ¨re d'admission serait l'appartenance Ã un groupe en mal de reprÃ©sentation par discrimination positive.