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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I shall limit myself to making a point of order. I believe that any decision taken by a parliament can be interpreted according to the motives that have been expressed. Some of you may not believe this, but I only discovered the motion tabled by Mr Ribeiro e Castro as I was coming into the Chamber. Our fellow Member has, to be precise, tabled a motion of inadmissibility based on the absence of a legal basis, pending the ratification of the Treaty of Nice. It therefore seems quite clear to me that Parliament, through its vote, has decided to postpone the discussion until the Treaty of Nice has indeed been ratified. That is my first point. My second and final point, which I shall discuss much more briefly, is that this is a question of democracy. I must say that democracy does not consist of those parties that have a majority gaining material advantages over the opposition and, furthermore, of assuming the right to deny the opposition these advantages for ideological reasons of their own."@en1

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