Francisco Assis MP from Portugal also claims he voted for by mistake (and
it's well possible that it was a mistake indeed, as he voted against last
time)

Paulo

Joseph Seddon <[email protected]> escreveu no dia terça, 26/03/2019
à(s) 22:39:

>
> 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
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