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Mr James MACCLEARY (United Kingdom, ALDE)

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Representative
Deputy
Liberal Democrat

House of Commons
GB - SW1A OAA - London
United Kingdom

Working language: English

Declarations of interests:
2026 , 2025 , 2024

Declarations of interest regarding election observations (if applicable)

Mandates

In the political groups

  • Member: Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe since 29/11/2024

In the Assembly

  • since 29/11/2024 Representative - United Kingdom

In the committee(s) and sub-committee(s)

  • Alternate of ZZ… (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 15/05/2026)
  • Alternate of Mr Stephen GETHINS (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 27/01/2025 to 14/05/2026)
  • Alternate of Lord Don TOUHIG (Full Member): Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (from 29/11/2024 to 26/01/2025)

Interventions

Last speeches

02/10/2025 | 17:09:22 Thank you, Mister President. Friends, this report arrives not a moment too soon. Across our continent, faith in political parties is crumbling. Membership rolls are emptying. Foreign cash and online lies poison our debates. Populists feast on public cynicism. But here's the truth – democracy simply cannot work without robust, transparent politics. This resolution makes the case clearly: parties aren't museum pieces gathering dust. They're the living, breathing institutions that connect... 01/10/2025 | 19:10:20 Thank you, Chair. This is a decisive moment. The Council of Europe was absolutely right to expel the Russian Federation – but that cannot be where our responsibility ends. In the last decade, we have witnessed the assassinations of Alexei NAVALNY and Boris NEMTSOV. We've seen opposition politicians locked away, threatened and intimidated. Every day brings fresh reports of journalists silenced, activists disappeared. This is the brutal cost of standing up to Vladimir PUTIN's regime. Yet still... 01/10/2025 | 13:02:56 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Serbia stands at a crossroads – and frankly, it's heading in the wrong direction. For ten months now, Serbian citizens have taken to the streets. Students leading the charge, demanding justice, transparency, and an end to the corruption corroding their country. The spark was the tragedy in Novi Sad – sixteen people killed when a railway station roof collapsed, a roof that had supposedly just been renovated. That disaster laid bare the rotten... 10/04/2025 | 11:31:58 Today, Georgia finds itself at a crossroads, not between East and West, but between democracy and authoritarianism. What was once a beacon of democratic hope in the region is now veering dangerously off course. The 2024 elections, which should have been an opportunity to reaffirm Georgia's democratic commitments, have instead revealed a stark and troubling truth. The Georgian Dream (GD) government is systematically dismantling the very democracy it claims to uphold. The evidence is not vague... 09/04/2025 | 17:42:53 Thank you, Chairman. Over 3 years have passed since Mr Vladimir PUTIN launched his brutal and illegal war against Ukraine. 3 years of death and destruction, displacement, and despair. And yet 3 years marked too by the extraordinary courage and unshakable resolve of the Ukrainian people. Each day, Ukrainians show the world what it means to stand for democracy, sovereignty, and the rule of law, not only for themselves, but for all of us. They resist not because it is easy, but because it is...

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