Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-06-15-Speech-2-234"
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"en.20100615.24.2-234"2
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"Today’s vote on the election of Mr Tőkés as Vice-President of the EP has been a disgrace. First, the President’s explanations on how to vote have been both confusing and contradictory. As a result, nobody knew for sure how to proceed. Second, the voting machines of a number of Romanian MEPs – expected to vote against – were curiously not working properly. Third, the vote was cast anyway and the President had left the entire matter hanging, leaving the room. Fourth, the sensible request from the floor that the vote be repeated under normal circumstances has been rejected. Fifth, so was the announcement that there were more votes than Members present! Sixth, instead, we were simply informed that the vote had been validated anyway! Seventh, even so, nobody could explain how 168 votes could represent a ‘qualified majority’ in a Parliament numbering 751 members!
In fact, the EPP has thus forcefully imposed its will on the entire Parliament! I regret this, because they can certainly do better than this, and we, the other MEPs, equally deserve better!"@en1
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