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"Mr President, I should also like to congratulate the rapporteur. We now have a majority. The House has been divided and different groups have had the opportunity to put on the record their preferred optimum solution amongst the options available.
I came to vote today with my colleagues in the ELDR. I departed only once from that list: to show support for what was available. Tomorrow, when we vote in the light of a Commission opinion, I would make the strongest appeal to Members of this House to give the largest possible consensus. I understand that many people have deep reservations about aspects of what this final statute may contain. However, I and the rapporteur will need to go to other institutions, and we have to go fortified by the weight of this House. We can go with a 'yes' or we can go with a 'no', but there is no debate on the basis of 'yes, but...'.
I ask people to reflect overnight and when we come tomorrow to vote in the light of the Commission's opinion, to give to those charged to represent this House the widest, most thorough mandate possible to say: 'This is what is available; this what we bring forward; and this commands the support of a great majority of Parliament'.
That is my appeal – to reflect overnight and tomorrow to put our collective weight behind what is available, for that is what we shall work with."@en1
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