Jörg Meuthen
EU Parliament
AfD Kompakt, July 4, 2019
What played out yesterday in Strassburg marks
a further low point in the EU Parliament: Mara Bizzotto (Lega) of our
delegation was placed in the running for one of the 14 deputy posts on the
Parliament’s presidium. She was denied the necessary votes.The candidates of
the right-conservative delegation “European Conservatives and Reformers” also
did not make it.
Those who as a rule always
pose as models of democracy are in reality its greatest scorners. As evidence
of that is their total rejection of the basic principles of democracy. The will
of the people will be completely ignored. The parties of our delegation “Identity
and Democracy” received in the EU election a total of around 21 million votes
and those of the “European Conservatives and Reformers” approximately 15 million
votes which will not have one representative
on the parliamentary presidium. All other delegations are represented on the
presidium. That has nothing to do within the much affirmed “Variety of the
Parliament”… That recalls the precedent in the Bundestag where the AfD likewise
in a more absurd process was denied a post on the Bundestag presidium.
We will not fail to further struggle against
this appalling democracy deficit in the EU. Besotted Eurocrats by their
arrogance of power have revealed themselves. They are in despair because
throughout the EU they are losing their influence. This influence will further
wane since, measured by the elections results, the citizens clearly do not
forget the rejection of democratic representation by the little power players
whom they carry on their backs.
