23/06/2021 | 17:29:25 Thank you very much. Anyone to speak against? No. So the view of the Committee on the oral amendment? In favour I understand? Yes. So I will now put the oral amendment to the vote. So members present in the chamber should use the hemicycle voting system as usual. Members participating remotely should vote using the remote voting system. The vote in the hemicycle and via remote voting is now open. Please vote. The vote is closed. I call for the result to be displayed. 64 in favour, 1 against... 23/06/2021 | 17:27:35 Thank you very much for your proposal, Madam Nicole TRISSE. Now we have an oral amendment, worded as follows: in the draft resolution delete paragraph 8.2.4. I remind the Assembly of rule 34.7 and rule 67.4d, which enabled the President to accept an oral amendment or sub amendment on the grounds of promoting clarity, accuracy or conciliation and if there is not opposition from 10 or more members to it being debated. In my opinion, the oral amendment meets the criteria of rule 34.7. If there... 23/06/2021 | 16:06:58 Good afternoon, dear colleagues. The sitting is open. The next item of business this afternoon is the debate on the report titled Enhancing participation of women from under-represented groups in political and public decision-making, Document 15301, presented by Ms Eglantina GJERMENI on behalf of the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination. In order to finish this item by 5:25 p.m. I will interrupt the list of speakers at about 5:20 p.m. to allow time for the reply and the vote. Now I... 21/06/2021 | 12:37:25 Madam President, I was a member of the PACE's ad hoc committee to observe parliamentary elections in Albania. I fully support the report presented by the head of our delegation, Mr Aleksander POCIEJ, and, in addition to what has been said by him, very few remarks. Firstly, the decision to send an election observation delegation to Albania was really a right decision, even in the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. I was observing collections in Tirana and its surroundings, it was clear from... 22/04/2021 | 13:05:32 (Undelivered speech, Rules of Procedure Art. 31.2) Dear Rapporteur Mr Jacques Maire, Dear Colleagues, Yesterday nearly 1,500 peaceful demonstrators have been arrested throughout Russia. They were calling for freedom for imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, whose health is deteriorating due to a serious illness and three weeks of hunger strike in prison. The last time such demonstrations took place in Russia in January and February, right after Navalny was arrested, and then more than... 21/04/2021 | 12:44:31 Thank you very much Mr President. Amendment number one is on paragraph 6 and as you can see what we proposed – nine of us, nine members of the Assembly – to replace the words, which were in the original text, "calling for caution as regards the holding of snap elections on the basis of the current electoral system, the Assembly" with the following words "the Assembly is aware of the calls from national and international actors for holding snap elections on the basis of the current electoral... 21/04/2021 | 11:54:18 Thank you very much, Mister President. First of all I would like to thank both rapporteurs, Lord David BLENCATHRA and Ms Alexandra LOUIS, for their very comprehensive and well-balanced reports and recommendations as adopted by the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy and the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of PACE respectively. Thank you very much, dear rapporteurs, for taking on board my amendments tabled individually, and also with a group of colleagues for today's... 28/01/2021 | 10:15:36 Colleagues, I ask you to support my amendment, even though it was rejected by the Committee. It speaks about Crimea and the amendment to the Russian constitution made last year. I slightly change the wording and now it reads as follows: "This amendment to the Russian Constitution not only ignores multiple demands of this Assembly with regard to the solution for the Crimea issue, but it is in a contradiction with the international commitments of the Russian Federation and international law... 27/01/2021 | 17:10:26 Thank you very much. Colleagues, I ask you to recall some well know Russian names. Andrei Sakharov, Sergei Magnitsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Nemtsov, Vladimir Kara-Murza, Alexei Navalny. What they span: A well-known academician, a lawyer, a businessman, a politician, a journalist, an activist. What do they have in common? What unites them is a dream, a desire in their fight for a democratic Russia where rule of law prevails and human dignity is respected. But they have in common... 25/01/2021 | 13:07:44 Thank you very much, Mr President. I will speak about the observation of the Parliamentary elections in Georgia. First of all, I would like to thank the rapporteur Mr Tiny KOX for the draft report. Allow me to point out that in 2018, I was leading the European Parliament election observation delegation to Georgia to observe presidential elections there. So, I have a good opportunity to compare these two elections in the country concerned in the context of the OSCE/ODIHR conclusions and...