Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-02-07-Speech-4-115"
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"Mr President, I voted for the Napolitano report. The Convention is extremely important and we all support it. However, I would like to take this opportunity to state that, in my opinion, there is a lack of democracy in the way the delegates from the European Parliament to the Convention were chosen. I feel, for example, that Mr Méndez de Vigo would have been much happier if the House had elected him by secret ballot, as the President of Parliament and you yourself, Mr Vice-President, were elected. Everybody would have voted for him and the vote would probably have been unanimous, but that would have constituted a genuine, democratic selection of candidates and therefore of Members of the European Parliament to this Convention.
I would like to point out here that although ‘a good start is half the battle’, in this case, a bad start means working twice as hard. I hope that, in future, the appointment of European Parliament representatives to these important bodies will be more democratic."@en1
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"- Napolitano report (A5-0023/2002 ) A5-0023/2002"1
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