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"I declare the sitting open. I would like to remind you that, in accordance with the Rules of Procedure, no business shall be transacted while the outgoing President is in the chair unless it is concerned with the election of the President or the verification of credentials, and so today, I am not allowing any comments or discussion. The only thing we can do is elect the President of the European Parliament – that is what it says in our Rules of Procedure.
I am not going to read out the names of the Members who vote. Please stay in your seats. What is important here is that the names of the Members who have voted have to be recorded in the Minutes, so please sign the list of those entitled to vote before placing your paper in the ballot box. Please sign the list at the ballot box. I would also ask you to have proof of identity with you and to show it. You should place your ballot paper into the envelope, having first folded it into four. The Members appointed to conduct the ballot and to act as tellers will vote at the end. That is everything. I understand that you have a question about the ballot procedure.
This morning, in accordance with the provisions of the Rules of Procedure, we have to elect the President of Parliament. Rule 13 of the Rules of Procedure says that nominations shall be with consent and may only be made by a political group or by at least 40 Members. In accordance with the conditions laid down in the Rules of Procedure, I have received the following three nominations for the office of President of the European Parliament – I already notified you of these nominations yesterday, but I will read them out again today – Nirj Deva
Martin Schulz
and Diana Wallis
. I would like to stress that the candidates have informed me that they consent to their candidature.
Ladies and gentlemen, we come to the ballot procedure. I would like to ask you not to leave your seats too early, because I am going to give most of the instructions about the ballot in Polish, so if you leave your seats and do not have your headphones, you are not going to hear me.
We now come to the ballot. I would like to remind you that in accordance with Rule 14(1) of the Rules of Procedure, the candidate who obtains an absolute majority of the valid votes cast is elected. Blank or void ballot papers are not considered as votes cast. It is a simple rule.
First, I will proceed to choose eight Members by lot, eight fellow Members whose job it will be to count the votes cast in the ballot. Their names will be drawn by lot from a box containing the names of all the Members.
Here is the box with the names of the Members, and I am pulling out successive names: Borsellino, Sógor, Panayotov, Poc, Bagó, Kalinowski, Kalfin, Perello Rodriguez.
Colleagues, please come and stand behind me on the podium.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am now giving precise instructions about the ballot. You have also received these instructions by e-mail, but I understand that not everyone has had time to read them, so I will go through the different phases of the ballot. First, ballot papers and envelopes will be distributed. Distribution of the ballot papers and envelopes can now begin.
Now we come to the ballot. May I remind you again that for a candidate to be elected, an absolute majority of valid votes cast is needed. After receiving your ballot papers, please mark the box next to the name of one of the candidates. So we mark the box of the candidate for whom we are voting. You can vote for only one candidate. If two or three candidates are marked, the vote is void. If comments of any kind are added, the vote is void. If you want to change your vote, this can be done. To do so, please return your paper with the vote to the people who are distributing the papers and take a new paper, but you have to give back the old one."@en1
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