Further to last week's posting on MEP selection procedures, this is the declaration that MEP wannabes will have to sign:
"I ……………………….. hereby agree that if I am elected, I will respect the agreement made by David Cameron and Mirek Topolanek in July 2006, “that at the commencement of the next legislature period of the European Parliament, following the elections in 2009 our delegations will establish a new parliamentary group, which other like-minded parties will be invited to join”, and that I will become a member of whichever political Group in the European Parliament is decided upon by the Party Leader, in consultation with the Leader of the Conservative MEPs, after the 2009 European elections."
One MEP told me that they thought the declaration needed to be tighter. They worried that "new parliamentary group" could refer to a reformed EPP and only slightly reformed at that.
