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Chat Control 1.0 HAS PASSED
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crazy how you can have a majority vote against something and it still pass
One thing that I don't understand is:
On July 7 there was a vote for this urgent vote to take place. 303 were against, 331 were for, (- 28 people) (so it passed)
Today (July 9th) the actual vote for this law took part. 314 were against, 276 were for (+38) (yet still passed).
Please tell me why MEP's voted for this urgent vote to take place and then later (on July 9th) voted against it ?? Were they misled or something?
They both want it to pass and then be able to say they voted against it when asked about it.
aka deceiving the electorate.
The reason for that is that the Parliament was trying to reject a law the Council had already agreed on.
The EU legislative process (ordinary legislative procedure) works like this: Parliament and Council take turns on a bill. Once the Council has adopted its position and it comes back to Parliament for a second reading, the default flips. The bill passes automatically unless Parliament actively rejects or amends it. And rejecting at second reading requires an absolute majority of all 720 MEPs (361 votes), not a majority of those voting.
That look like bullshit to me tbh, i don't see how does that make sense, someone cam explain to me? Like, why does it have to be an absolute majority?
Because it's a pre-existing law.
I think the actual question is: why didn't all the MEPs bother to attend the vote when it was this contentious.
edit Oh, the answer might simply be that they didn't have to be there if they would've voted against not passing.