Technical problems with electronic voting machines as well as a lack of familiarity among the new deputies about how to use them led on Wednesday to farcical scenes in the European Parliament involving dead painters and a patient Commission chief designate.
MEPs were trying to vote in five new Quaestors - MEPs who are responsible for administrative matters relating directly to the deputies - but were hampered at every turn.
The vote originally, scheduled for 13:00, was first delay...
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