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"It feels very different to be here.
I thank Mr Poettering and the PPE-DE Group for their nomination, in addition to that of the ELDR, and for your unstinting support in terms of delivering on what you said. To have a reliable partner in politics is always important. It is a foundation on which we can build in an inclusive way in this House. I thank all those who voted for me. In acknowledging all those who voted for other candidates, now that the matter is settled I hope we can develop a genuine stakeholder presidency committed to building in this Parliament and in the Union a Union and a Parliament fit for Europe's future.
Colleagues, today has been a good day for parliamentary democracy in the European Parliament. I want to thank our colleague, Mr Soares, the
for the manner in which he has conducted our sitting so far today.
Our House has divided in votes in this election today on three occasions. That is politics and democracy. Our House has decided, and that now gives legitimacy. I am bound to tell you that after the vigour of this democratic contest in these past months and the past hours today, I feel a deeper sense of the legitimacy of the mandate of this presidency. I thank you for it.
I thank Mr David Martin for the manner in which he has conducted his campaign for the issues which he has articulated and brought forward, which are of common concern and on which we must act.
I thank Mr Bonde for what he has brought to this campaign, in particular an expression of the concerns felt my many in the House who feel more marginal than they ought to.
I thank Mr Onesta for bringing his typical panache to the reform agenda and I commit myself to that agenda.
I thank Mr Wurtz for his kind remarks earlier today. I know that politics divides us because we have our convictions. We owe our conviction to no person or group of persons. Conviction, passion and reason are part of what we bring to our politics, but also an appreciation of being able to do business with each other. He has brought that too.
I thank my colleagues in the ELDR Group. I feel very proud that this is the first time in more than two decades that a representative of this group that has played an important part in the democratic life of this House. Since the very first assembly of the Coal and Steel Community 50 years ago we have done so. It is an honour to preside over the House today. I say to my Liberal colleagues that this is a very bitter-sweet moment: sweet, as you may imagine for all those reasons and bitter-sweet because I have always done my politics week in, week out, day in, day out, in the bosom of that group. I thank you for all the confidence you have shown in me over the years. I hope I can repay a debt of gratitude and a debt of honour."@en1
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