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"en.20121122.31.4-391-500"2
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"The majority in Parliament want the European political parties – which are focused on defending the EU’s course and which depend on the EU in financial and organisational terms – to nominate the respective candidates for the Presidency of the Commission, in order to improve their visibility and involvement, and transform the election of Members of the European Parliament in each country, and the associated debate, into a campaign revolving around the Presidency of the Commission. This approach also involves unacceptable interference in national electoral systems, by proposing ‘minimum thresholds’ for the election of Members of the European Parliament, in the name of alleged ‘stability of the Union’s legislative procedures’, ‘reliable majorities’ and ‘safeguarding the functionality of Parliament’. If adopted, this change will mean, for countries like Portugal, the end of the current genuinely proportional system, with possible anti-democratic consequences in the distribution of mandates. The enhanced ‘legitimacy’ of the European Parliament’s role defended by this resolution is indissociable from the ongoing attacks in the EU on national sovereignty and on the most basic rights and political and democratic freedoms of the workers and people. It also demonstrates the gravity of the crisis and the need for big business to confront the increasing struggle of the people, by taming and streamlining political power according to its own interests and aspirations of hegemonic control. Obviously, we voted against."@en1
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