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		cs02rm0 on Feb 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Article 13 Is Back On: Worse, Not Better That's fair, but it still strikes me as a democratically weaker system for it. Has the Parliament ever exercised their veto against a president?

jnurmine on Feb 5, 2019 [–]

No. The closest was in 1999, when the Commission lead by Jacques Santer dropped out voluntarily before the Parliament forced them to go.

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