Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2008-01-16-Speech-3-253"
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"en.20080116.12.3-253"2
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"Mr President, we all agree that what has clearly gone wrong in Kenya is the presidential election procedure. What have gone relatively well, however, are the parliamentary elections, the elections for members of the national parliament.
I agree with Commissioner Michel that yesterday’s developments in the Kenyan Parliament are encouraging: the speaker has been elected – the parties and the opposition have been sufficiently powerful to push through the elections for the new speaker. I therefore believe that the European Parliament must do everything possible to support parliamentary democracy in Kenya and strengthen it where possible. The budget aid that was granted exactly one day after the elections has drawn criticism from many quarters of this House.
I would like to ask the Commissioner the following question – even though this is probably not officially allowed. Would he be inclined to make future decisions to grant budget aid dependent on the European Parliament’s opinion? In my view, it is not for a small group of officials in the European Development Fund Committee to take such a decision; instead, the Commissioner should first seek the European Parliament’s opinion. I would like to have a clear answer to this question."@en1
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