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"Madam President, it is not because I represent the Pensioners’ Party that I am knowledgeable about the issue of the election observance by our missions in the other States, but because I established the Pensioners’ Party in Italy and, for almost 20 years, I have been surrounded by papers, regulations and elections: indeed, not a year passes without me being involved in some election or other. Well then, I would like to stress that I voted for the motion, but, in particular, I would call not just for missions to be sent to the various States holding elections to check that the right voting procedures are being followed, but for the voting rules themselves to be controlled as well. In fact, there are States where only the wealthy are allowed to put candidates forward for elections, only those who own television networks can succeed in winning elections, or only those who are able to collect thousands of signatures from a certain notary, and so on and so forth. This is not true democracy. Therefore, the voting rules themselves must be controlled in those States."@en1
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