https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190326/15193241877/enough-meps-say-they-mistakenly-voted-articles-11-13-that-vote-should-have-flipped-eu-parliament-says-too-bad.shtml
I wonder if actually given that it was so close this is being used as an excuse to voters. On Tue, 26 Mar 2019, 22:08 Johan Jönsson, <[email protected]> wrote: > Den tis 26 mars 2019 kl 22:12 skrev john cummings < > [email protected]>: > >> https://boingboing.net/2019/03/26/jfc-fml-jfc.html >> > > That's not true, though. > > First, the two Sweden Democrat MEPs voting as they had planned to would > have meant that the directive would have passed as it is with a single > vote, but it would still have passed. Ulvskog – a Social Democrat MEP – > voted *for* opening a debate on amendments (that is, against adopting the > directive in its entirety), but had previously stated she'd vote for > adopting the directive including all articles. Her potentially pressing the > wrong button certainly didn't *help* it pass. > > Second, the Sweden Democrats "is a social conservative and right-wing > populist political party" (English Wikipedia, being neutrally polite), > hardly "left-leaning". > > //Johan Jönsson > -- > _______________________________________________ > Publicpolicy mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/publicpolicy >
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