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dcterms:Date	"2012-09-12"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20120912.21.3-320-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Cristian Dan Preda2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; PETI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Partidul Democrat-Liberal (2009-07-14--2013-12-08)3 substitute; Delegation to the Cariforum — EU Parliamentary Committee (2010-06-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (2010-01-20--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 substitute; DEVE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; EPP (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Romania is a perfect illustration of what Tocqueville called ‘the tyranny of the majority’. However, the impact is not only nationwide, even though, by its action, the socialist majority in Bucharest added to the European economic crisis an extensive political crisis in one of the Member States. In fact, the events of 3-6 July caused confusion, given that they dramatically brought into opposition the European and national policy discourse. Indeed, what can Europeans do when a country’s majority becomes tyrannical, dismissing the Ombudsman, the Presidents of the Parliament’s Chambers and the Head of State in just three days, in contempt of the Constitution? How should I react when the Parliament in Bucharest requests the Constitutional Court to rule on the President’s suspension within 24 hours? What can I say when the majority members of the Romanian Parliament are lodging criminal complaints against European MPs for having criticised their country’s government? How should I react when Romanian citizens working or studying in one of the other 26 Member States are being denied the right to vote? Is it not absurd when a politician believes the electoral list should be established after and not prior to the citizen consultations? The entire European public opinion was concerned with such questions in July and August. The Commission’s intervention was prompt, in support of those Romanian institutions which could stop the drift of the majority and, for this reason, we must thank the Commission. I too wish to do so, on behalf of those Romanian citizens who do not perceive the European identity as a burden, but as enriching the national identity. However, this is not the interpretation given in his turn by Victor Ponta, the Romanian Prime Minister. Accused of plagiarism by the same University that had awarded him the title of Doctor a decade ago, Mr Ponta did not have the courage to come here today and explain why he has not answered all the requests made by the European Commission. Instead, he chose to stay in Bucharest and criticise the Commission, using that nationalist and populist discourse which, as President Barroso said this morning, is a denial of Europe. Such a politician embodies the past, not the present. For this reason, I demand his resignation."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))."1
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