The Irish Speak... or at least 1, 614, 866 of them

Is ratification dead ?  The vote for the EU Constitution... , whoops I mean TREATY... was defeated (again) in Ireland's Referendum 53% to 47% (hard numbers:862,415 votes against and 752,451 in favour, giving a majority of 109,964 against.) ... SKY NEWS 

"This is a cry for democracy, accountability and transparency to the heart of European government," said Declan Ganley, a high-tech executive who was the most prominent Irish treaty opponent. "We need them to go back to the drawing table."

Mr. Ganley, whose anti-treaty organization chartered a "battle bus" for cross-country roadshows, complained that the treaty handed too much power to a Brussels government he called undemocratic. He said Irish voters were particularly put off by the provision that the EU president be appointed, not elected.WSJ Article

Jean-Luc Dehaene, a former Belgian prime minister who was one of the leading figures involved in drafting the original constitution, said the Irish vote shouldn't be allowed to derail the treaty. "Parliament is the heart of representative democracy, not referendums," he said in a phone interview Friday.

Out of 4.1 million men women and little irish kids the difference of 110,000 voters for all Europe. It is to ponder how we move together...

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