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"Mr President, parliamentary immunity is designed to protect Members’ freedom of expression. According to the settled case-law of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs, therefore, it is laid down as a basic principle that, when the actions for which a Member has been criticised form part of his or her political role or are directly linked to it, then immunity is not withdrawn.
That includes – again, according to this case-law – the expression of opinions said to be closely bound up with a Member’s political activity, opinions that are voiced at demonstrations, at public meetings, in the context of political publications, in the press, in a book, on the television and even before a court of law.
In our colleague’s, Mr Gollnisch’s, case, there is no doubt whatsoever that this well-defined case-law has been unfairly circumvented in this House. Mr Gollnisch is in the wrong where the law is concerned because he is in the political minority. You have a ‘variable-geometry’ take on the law. What are you doing in this place where the values and the principles of democracy and of the law are embraced? Because the parliamentary immunity of our colleague, Mr Gollnisch, has not been defended today, this Assembly is unworthy of the principles it proclaims – unworthy of them, and unjust!"@en1
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