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Easy solution, hold the vote again. Of course that won't happen.
i m not sure it would not pass again
Whether either or both of those amendments would pass on a separate vote is unknown.
What a surprise. Politicians step out of their bubble to find out that people hate the laws their sponsors are pushing and try to backpedal.
Also, elections are coming. 23-26.5.2019. Their electorate remembers, and will send them packing.
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If it was like this, then laws and regulations would have no real value and no authority whatsoever.
have you watched a video of how they vote? it's a complete joke, it goes so fast the interpreters can't keep up and people end up making constant mistakes https://youtu.be/zLh9DMuetm4?t=58
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i m not sure it would not pass again
The bill as a whole would definitely pass, but the specific issue (whether to vote on the link tax and update filter separately) passed by only five votes, and 13 people said they meant to vote the other way. Whether either or both of those amendments would pass on a separate vote is unknown.
Failure of one the fundamental mechanisms of representative democratic government calls into question the legitimacy of that government, and of that system of government.
This is ammunition for the advocates of illiberal systems.
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have you watched a video of how they vote? it's a complete joke, it goes so fast the interpreters can't keep up and people end up making constant mistakes https://youtu.be/zLh9DMuetm4?t=58
It always happens to make mistakes, I just don’t believe MEPs don’t care of the hot topic of the day every newspaper is writing about...
It's not unlikely that at least some of them claim it was a mistake to avoid taking responsibility for their vote because they're aware of how unpopular it was. After being in parliament for at least ~5 years, it's hard to believe so many of them still haven't figured out how the voting works.
it's possible, but there are votes in different directions. It's also possible some just understood the question incorrectly or confused it with something else, not just "misclicked". Without knowing how often this happens in other votings it's hard to tell if this is unusual.
It's a pretty arcane system with laws drafted by the (unelected) commissioners and the EU HCoJ and sometimes (as in this case) ratified by MEP's who all too often have little understanding of what they are voting on because they weren't involved early on in their creation.
Official vote: 312 for, 317 against, 24 abstained
Corrected votes: 320 for, 314 against, 20 abstained
It seems very rare to have that many corrections. Out of the 191 separate results in the voting record document, the only other one with more corrections was the actual vote on the directive right afterwards (but the corrections couldn't have flipped that one).
[1]: https://tildes.net/~tech/brp/europes_controversial_overhaul_...