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The political manoeuvring continues apace this week in Strasbourg (Photo: European Parliament)

New European Conservatives group in disarray over renegade MEP

by Andrew Willis, STRASBOURG, July 14, 2009, 8:48:00 PM
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The newly-formed European Conservatives and Reformists group (ECR) is embroiled in a kerfuffle over a vice-presidency post in the European Parliament.

Edward McMillan-Scott, a UK Conservative, has been expelled from the Conservative Party after staging a renegade bid for the post.

His actions resulted in Michal Tomasz Kaminski, a Polish MEP and official candidate of the anti-federalist group for the post, not getting elected as one of the parliament's 14 vice-presidents.

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