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"Madam President, Rule 7(4) of the Rules of Procedure lays down that the President may ask the competent committee for its opinion and that Parliament may express its opinion on the basis of that proposal.
I would ask Parliament to express its view, and I do so with all due respect for the Committee on Legal Affairs and the internal Market, which has held a full debate on this issue, because I believe that there are two basic elements here. One of them is respect for parliamentary rules and the Treaties.
Monday’s letter from the chairperson of the Legal Affairs Committee – which is the one I know, because I have just been made aware of it – cited Article 12(2) of the 1976 Act concerning the election of representatives of the European Parliament, which reads as follows: “Where a seat falls vacant pursuant to national provisions in force in a Member State, the latter shall inform the European Parliament, which shall take note of the fact”. This means, firstly, that a Member State, which is a constitutional state, like France, has taken decisions in accordance with a legal judgement and the executive..."@en1
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