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"After the amendment on the oldest Member was rejected by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Mr Schulz and Mr Daul, those two liberal-social-democrat cronies, reintroduce the same amendment in plenary.
The Classics used to teach that to err is human; to persist in error is diabolical.
The lesson has clearly not been learned. Focusing the work of the European Parliament on my humble self borders on the pathetic. In fact, flouting our own Rules of Procedure to such an extent is to sow the seeds of latent totalitarianism.
When will the minority groups be eliminated? When will recalcitrant Members be eliminated?
From Claude Autant-Lara to Jean-Marie Le Pen, we have come full circle. In 1989, after the great filmmaker’s remarkable speech, the oldest Member’s speech was abolished. Twenty years later, the oldest Member is to be got rid of to prevent that devil Le Pen from presiding over the election of the President of the European Parliament.
Such democratic progress, ladies and gentlemen!
Mr Schulz and Mr Daul are unwittingly giving me remarkable free publicity, which I will not fail to exploit. Alone against the world, I will take up the gauntlet and take as witness the true democrats and sincere Europeans: this masquerade and this denial of democracy serves not Europe but the hidden, partisan interests of a small coterie of politicians."@en1
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