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"Mr President, I would like to thank Mr Corbett very much for his rather interesting intervention. If I might explain the problem to you, Mr Corbett, the difficulty is that there is one thing on a screen, there is another thing being said in one language, it is being translated into English, there are constant mistakes in that, we are reading the voting lists at exactly the same time and mistakes are made when that entire process takes something like five to six seconds.
There is something deeply wrong with a democratic system in which we do not know whether people have voted in favour or against. Even President Schulz, earlier, was calling votes as having gone against when they had actually gone in favour, or in favour when they had actually gone against.
That is a fundamental nonsense and surely, Mr Corbett, if you believe – and you are, I believe, a true believer – in the institutions and structures of this place, then you should be on our side on this one! You should be standing up against things that are going wrong, but you are not. And I look around and I see your Labour colleagues – my Labour colleague in the north—east was smiling, joking and clapping at any suggestion that we can get things done more quickly. That is a nonsense, an absolute nonsense! So can we please at least have the semblance of democracy in this place for once? It would be nice. Sadly, with regard to the anti—democratic comments of those who just want to get lunch quicker: lunch is not more important than democracy."@en1
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