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"Mr President, Mr Cox has apologised to me because I had asked to draw the attention of the House to the Rules of Procedure, which have not been followed.
In fact, I believe that we have contravened our Rules of Procedure. It is quite legitimate for a fifth of Members to request a secret ballot, even though I, like Mrs Bérès, think that it was not at all advisable in the circumstances. Having said that, however, Rule 136(4) lays down a specific procedure for such secret ballots. The counting of any secret vote is carried out by between two and six tellers, drawn by lot from among the Members. That means that we have here a solemn procedure, a cumbersome procedure, a procedure which is intended precisely to discourage any inopportune requests for the use of a secret ballot. One does not vote by secret ballot in the same way as one would change one’s tie. We also find that, in the Corbett report on which we have just voted, Rule 136 was not amended. Therefore the President was wrong not to apply the procedure laid down in Article 4, which is intended precisely to avoid using secret ballots, for tactical reasons, at every opportunity."@en1
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