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"No, Mr Medina Ortega, you are slightly mistaken. There are several precedents. As you will see, this will actually be very interesting. Mr Barón Crespo wrote to me to request that an exhaustive document be drawn up listing all the requests to waive parliamentary immunity and detailing the reactions given to them. I believe that the House, as well as the Committees that have a particular involvement, will find this document very interesting. It will show, once again, that almost all the requests, except for those from Portugal, originate from governments and that my predecessors were, in several cases, asked to take the same step as myself, that is, to request clarification. In particular, there was the case of Mr Balfe, the British MEP. There have been several instances where you will see that my predecessors Mr Gil-Robles Gil-Delgado and Mr Klepsch adopted the careful approach that I did. I believe that this really is a very significant issue and it is very important because it affects all the Members of a Parliament whose powers, we must admit, have increased. Members’ protection is a particularly important matter that must be dealt with very carefully, and, I would like to make a serious point that our actions must be completely divorced from our relationships with the Members that these requests for waivers may involve. Personally, this is the way I currently work and shall continue to work in the future, wherever these requests may come from."@en1
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