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"en.20121122.31.4-396-000"2
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"This report calls on European political parties to nominate a candidate for the Presidency of the Commission. This is a new form of ‘presidentialism’ that seeks to legitimise a body with an illegitimate role. Europeans will vote not for a man or woman but for the ideas they wish to see implemented. It is Members of the European Parliament, in all their political diversity, who will implement these ideas. It is they, not the Commissioners, who must exercise the right of legislative initiative. Instead of attempting to legitimise the present lack of democracy, my colleagues on the right and among the Social Democrats would do well to work on the democratic overhaul of the European institutions and to reclaim the power that should be theirs. I voted against this masquerade."@en1
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