27/04/2023 | 14:37:55 Dear Colleagues, I now have the privilege and honour to welcome amongst us His Excellency Mr Guðni Th. JÓHANNESSON, President of Iceland, who will address us in a few minutes and has also kindly accepted to reply to questions from our parliamentarians. Your Excellency, Mister President, In a few days your beautiful island will be the centre of focus of Europe with the 4th Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Council of Europe taking place in Reykjavík on 16 and 17 May 2023. You will... 26/04/2023 | 17:35:44 Thank you, Ms Margreet De BOER. I have now received the results of the second round of the election of a judge to the European Court of Human Rights from Romania. I see the signatures of all tellers; I see no comments on the voting procedure. The total number of members voting was 177. The number of spoiled or blank ballots is zero. We need a relative majority. The number of valid votes is 165. Ms Claudia Jderu received 3 votes. Mr Răzvan Horaţiu Radu received 78 votes. Mr Sebastian Răduleţu... 26/04/2023 | 17:03:34 Thank you [in German] Ms Petra BAYR. Before we continue our debate, we will now proceed to the second round of the vote of the election of the judge of the European Court of Human Rights. As no candidate achieved the required absolute majority, we will now have this second round. I inform you that the tellers will be the same as for the first ballot, so be prepared tellers. After I open it the ballot will close at 5:20 p.m. I expect to announce the results of the elections here in the... 26/04/2023 | 16:51:45 Thank you, Mr Yuriy KAMELCHUK, Before we continue the debate, I have received the protocol with regard to the election of a judge to the European Court of Human Rights for Romania. I see that the protocol has been signed by all five tellers. There are no remarks with regards to the electoral procedure, therefore I can announce the results. The total number of members voting was 173. The number of spoiled or blank ballots was 15. The absolute majority of the votes cast would be 80. The number... 26/04/2023 | 16:19:56 Sorry sir, a point of order is a point of order with regard to the agenda. The decision yesterday was taken on the basis of the rules, so we cannot come back on that now. We continue to the vote... no, no, you made your point of order. Sorry, no. You made the point of order, sir. No, sorry sir. We have taken that decision. I explained it yesterday. It's completely according to the rules. I will explain it again in the Bureau. What was on the agenda was the proposal from Mr Aleksander POCIEJ... 26/04/2023 | 16:14:30 Thank you very much. We have one speaker in favour of the proposal to change the agenda and one speaker against it. I will now put the proposal to the vote. A two-thirds majority is required to change the Agenda. Sorry, we are now first voting on this and then we come back to another point of order. There has been a proposal to change the agenda. I now put it to the vote. The vote is open. We are voting to change the agenda. So if you wait, we will proceed to vote on the motion to change the... 26/04/2023 | 16:09:07 Dear colleagues, The sitting is open. The Agenda calls for the election of one judge to the European Court of Human Rights in respect of Romania. The list of candidates and biographical notices and the opinion of the committee on the election of judges are to be found in Documents 15733 and 15745 and Addendum 2. Please ensure that you are sitting in your designated seat, then insert your voting card. You must leave your voting card in the slot throughout the vote until 4:30 p.m. If you remove... 25/04/2023 | 17:13:58 Thank you very much. Once again, thank you for what you said Mr Damien COTTIER, but I am only applying the rules. The rules say that I have seen that we made a mistake. I take responsibility for the mistake because I asked you to vote. And, therefore, I have to annul the voting process. End of story. Second round, I now see 4:00 p.m. and we will see how we can shorten the process. We have to be aware that an eventual second round will take place at 5:00 p.m. Can we leave with this decision... 25/04/2023 | 17:11:46 Thank you, sir. No, but I am the president and I have... sorry, you can continue talking, but that does not make it more relevant. What I say and again, I have seen that a mistake was made in the publication of the lists. I have seen that our rules are clear: They say alphabetical order. That was not respected. I do not have any other choice than to say that I have to annul the voting process. That means that I cannot read and announce any results. So that point is taken. Whether everybody... 25/04/2023 | 17:06:02 Thank you very much, and thank you very much also, Ms Fiona O'LOUGHLIN, for your presentation. I have opened and closed the vote on the election of a judge in respect of Romania. I have received the procès-verbal of the tellers. I have concluded that the list of candidates was not presented to you in the alphabetical order. Our rules say that it has to be presented in the alphabetical order, therefore I have ruled to annul the result of the voting process. I will not announce therefore any...