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"I think that before Mr Dupuis gets so excited and starts making such exaggerated accusations he should first verify what has actually happened.
The fact is that the Napolitano report was not available in all the languages 24 hours before the debates and before the vote, as required by Rule 115. In order, therefore, to safeguard the Rules of this House and the Rules governing every Member, to ensure that Members have the rights they enjoy under these Rules, the Socialist Group and the Liberal Group, with the support, as was announced earlier, of the EPP Group, requested that to make sure we were in conformity with our Rules, Rule 112 on urgent procedure should be applied. This will be put to the House tomorrow morning to vote on. It will be a sovereign decision of this House to decide whether we can apply urgent procedure to this report. There is nothing undemocratic about that. It respects the Rules of Procedure and it respects what the majority in this House wants.
A question I think one could ask is about the motives of those who have tried to filibuster this report from beginning to end, of those who have tried to block it, of those who have tried every trick in the book and everything in the rule book to try and have it postponed. I wonder what it is that makes them fear OLAF having the right to verify that Members are conducting their affairs properly in this House."@en1
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