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dcterms:Date	"2012-09-12"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"pl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20120912.21.3-340-000"2
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lpv:speaker	lp:Jacek Protasiewicz2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Platforma Obywatelska (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2012-01-18--2014-06-30)3 substitute; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; DROI (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 member; LIBE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; CRIM (2012-03-28--2013-10-23)3 member; Parliament's Bureau (2012-01-18--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation to the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Belarus (2012-06-05--2014-06-30)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I will begin from the European dimension. I am truly amazed and surprised by the statement made by Mr Watson, a liberal democrat leader in this Parliament, that the majority has a right to impose its view and the right to decide what the truth is, as is the case in dictatorships. Mr Watson, protection of the rights of minorities is a cornerstone of liberal democracy. We now have a situation where a majority of Romanians rejects the Romanian Ombudsman, introduces changes, challenges the constitutional court, and wants to dismiss the President. The majority is not right only by virtue of being the majority. What is right is right, but not because it enjoys a majority. I want to add one more comment – there can be no comparison between Romania and Hungary. In Hungary, the socialist party has, along with its once-liberal coalition partner, led the country to ruin. It has been rejected by the vast majority of the nation in a clear manner. Two thirds of the Parliament – two thirds went over to the Fidesz Party. These two thirds had the authority under the constitution to introduce constitutional amendments. There is a big difference between two thirds and half or less than half in a referendum when it comes to making changes such as dismissing a president. This is not a Romanian exception. In Poland, a referendum is valid only if half the population participates in it, since the alternation of power is a principle of democracy and either we defend such principles or else we will end up governed by the law of the jungle or the steppe – might is right. Such customs are not European, they belong to the steppe. Socialists and liberals, remember this."@en1
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