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"Mr President, I too would like to thank and congratulate you, although I do not have much to add to what Mr Wurtz has said.
I have just one comment to make. We are often told that the composition of Parliament does not accurately reflect our societies, our schools or even our football grounds. It is true that we still lack women and that there are not enough second-generation immigrants. On the other hand, there is a sector, and I would draw your attention to this, where these two categories are more than amply represented, and that is the cleaning staff, the people whose job is to look after our comfort. When one thinks about it – and since you are the President of everybody, I would be grateful if you would take some notice of them as well – one realises that many of the cleaning staff are second generation immigrants.
The second thing I would like to say, and I am not entirely joking, is this: you surprised us all by speaking in your native tongue. My own language – I come from Senegal and am a French MEP – is Bambara. I can therefore only hope that I will have just one opportunity before the end of this Parliamentary term to express myself in my capacity as a Member of Parliament in my mother tongue, for that is what we mean by diversity and is also a way of giving each person recognition, for, despite all our differences, we have a future to build together."@en1
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