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lpv:speaker	lp:Carlo Casini2
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lpv:translated text	"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, the people are the foundation of democracy. ‘People’ means identity, a combination of history, traditions and ideals, but it also means unity and the desire to have a single government. On that basis, a single electoral system is clearly an instrument for building a population, a European . This European still does not fully exist, as demonstrated by the fact that in the last European elections there was a much lower turnout and hence a lack of responsiveness, and by the fact that national debates have focused primarily on national problems and not on European problems. The proposals made in the Treaty of Lisbon should therefore be implemented. Under the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Parliament is not obliged to present or draft a uniform electoral law; the Treaty merely indicates that it has the power to do so, but it is an extraordinarily important power, and therefore we must not abandon our plan to undertake this reform of the 1976 Act. We will refer this document by Mr Duff – whom I thank once again in my capacity as Chair of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs – back to committee. The Committee on Constitutional Affairs adopted his text almost unanimously, and we are somewhat reluctant today to see it be referred back to committee. However, precisely because we must not back down in any way, I believe that Parliament should redraft the text so that it is more workable and can receive broader support, but that referral back to committee should not be a way of shelving the reform. The need for a European vision is not due solely to the fact that elections could be held in a transnational college; there is also the question of what the direct election by the people of the Members of the Commission or at least of the Commission President would involve. It is with that question that I shall therefore conclude my speech, extending my thanks once again to the rapporteur, Mr Duff."@en1
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