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"en.20051213.52.2-177"2
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"Mr President, the majority of this Parliament has just decided, for political reasons, not to defend my immunity. I do, however, note with satisfaction that my defence was supported by a large number of fellow Members not belonging to my political group, and I am all the more satisfied because all of the allegations featured in Mrs Wallis’ preliminary draft report have disappeared, as was insisted on by the majority of the committee, no doubt to ease its conscience.
This decision was taken for an absurd and unusual reason: I am alleged to have voiced my opinion outside the context of my parliamentary activities, something that is untrue. In the current political circumstances, though, the fact that I have succeeded in eliminating all the passages that might have been hostile to me in relation to the content of my remarks is a semi-victory. With hypocrisy being the homage vice pays to virtue, I consider the procedural trick used by my political opponents to be the proof of the awkward position they are in – ‘awkward’ being a weak term – in relation to the content of this matter.
The fact remains that all this comes at the very time when a large number of voices, including those of Mr de Villepin, Mr Chirac and …"@en1
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