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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-02-01"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Results of the elections in Palestine and situation in the Middle-East, and the Council's decision not to publish the report on East Jerusalem2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060201.12.3-067"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-02-01-Speech-3-0682
lpv:speaker	lp:Edward Mcmillan-scott2
lpv:spoken text	". Mr President, it was my privilege to be the chairman once again of the largest elected observation mission to the elections in Palestine: that of the European Parliament. At the outset I would like to thank the other 26 Members of the European Parliament on the delegation for their work, particularly my deputy chairman, Mrs Napoletano, and, of course Mrs de Keyser, in her capacity as chief observer of the European Union’s team. I would also like to thank the staff of the European Parliament who came with us and who did an outstanding job in very difficult circumstances. Last week on the streets of Palestine we heard the clamour for choice and change. We heard the noise of democracy. We found out, as one of my colleagues put it, that the process was perfect. Voters went freely to the polls, men, women, young and old. The polling stations, usually in schools and administered by teachers, were efficient and well organised. By and large the Israeli forces kept out of the way. The process was perfect and there is no doubt that the result reflected the wish of the people, but the product more reflects their despair of Fatah than their love of Hamas. Indeed, the Hamas people we met were not very loveable. Not just in Palestine, but elsewhere in the Arab world – including in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood did so well in November and December; in the Moroccan parliamentary elections to come – we are about to see the emergence of fundamentalist Islamist politics across the Arab world, an Arab world of 250 million people. That is the challenge to all our institutions. We must work together, because in my view, although we imparted the process of democracy, we did not impart the values of democracy that we are so used to in the European Union. Democracy, the rule of law, human rights and respect for the protection of minorities: these are the values we need to impart."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Edward McMillan-Scott (PPE-DE ),"1 "chairman of the European Parliament’s observation mission"1

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