Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-07-20-Speech-2-033"
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"Mr President, it is regrettable that we do not have an opportunity to hear from the vice-presidential candidates, even though we have the right number. It would have been good to know who the candidates are. We have to remember that 50% of the Members here are new and do not know the people they are voting for.
It would have been in the interests of transparent democracy for us to have heard who the people were, so we could choose and put them in order. The vice-presidential role is not just a ceremonial role in presiding over these debates but a key decision-making role in the Bureau. Some of the candidates are very new. I suggest that in future candidates make one-minute presentations.
I also suggest that we hear from the Quaestors when they are elected tomorrow, because they are the people who are meant to be representing MEPs. Otherwise, we have no say whatsoever as to the people we are electing.
Finally, we should depoliticise the Quaestors, so we have real representatives for MEPs."@en1
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