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"I feel that adopting this report is a serious mistake and extremely irresponsible, and so I am voting against it.
Above all, we must remember that there is no European election system. Things would be different if this were to be established at some point (and I would support it). Meanwhile, European elections must be in line with the election systems in each Member State. The Duff report proposes the scrapping of dual or multiple candidacies in European Parliament elections. The same candidate could stand in a number of states, and after the elections could choose which of the seats he or she wants to retain.
In addition to the obviously complicated arrangements this would involve, it is evident this is defrauding the electorate, and is adding nothing to the respectability of the Parliament we wish to construct.
Moreover, the proposal put to the vote today eliminates compulsory recognition of legal decisions (both civil and criminal) in relation to the capacity to stand as a candidate, making it possible for someone who has been banned from standing by a court in the state of which he or she is a national to stand in another state. This is a contradiction of European justice and home affairs practices, and we can easily imagine the shameful situations it could create."@en1
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