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"Mr President, the elected socialists from the French community in Belgium and other Members asked me to justify our negative vote.
Parliament does itself no honour by continuing to blindly defend a Draft Constitution that does not in any way plug the democratic deficit which, despite having been denounced for more than ten years, is spectacularly evident in a number of deficient areas, beginning with the social aspect and the non-governance of the euro. Nor does Parliament do itself any honour by concealing, contrary to the evidence, the fact that the Convention has shown itself to be dramatically incapable of raising a sustainable consensus. Nor does it do so by concealing the responsibility of the Commission and its President, who concealed their opposition at the time of the consensus, all the better to reveal it later, although they had chosen to remain silent on the Treaty of Nice.
We believe, furthermore, that Parliament would do better to denounce the emergence of a European G6 whose clumsy intervention only complicates an already difficult debate. Finally, like others, we have high hopes of the Irish Presidency, but we believe that a Parliament makes itself ridiculous in asking the impossible."@en1
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