Amendment No. 82 | Doc. 14900 | 24 June 2019
Strengthening the decision-making process of the Parliamentary Assembly concerning credentials and voting
In the draft resolution, paragraph 10, delete the following words: "The members' rights to vote, to speak and to be represented in the Assembly and its bodies shall not be suspended or withdrawn in the context of a challenge to or reconsideration of credentials"
And replace it by the following sentences:
"The deprivation or suspension of certain rights of participation or representation in the activities of the Assembly does not affect the rights of Assembly members to take part in the election of judges to the European Court of Human Rights, the Commissioner for Human Rights, the Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe and the Secretary General of the Parliamentary Assembly".
as well as the following footnote "Only members of the Assembly, belonging to delegations whose credentials have been duly ratified by the Assembly, may take part in the election of the highest officials of the Council of Europe. The delegation members who were deprived of some of their rights of participation and representation as a result of a formal decision of the Assembly, including their voting rights, can participate in the election of the aforementioned figures, any parliament not having had its credentials ratified by the Assembly or, by its own choice, not represented in the Assembly by a delegation, has no claim to participation in those elections".