Je n’aurais dès lors pas eu l’opportunité de voter pour le texte original, qui serait devenu caduc dans ces circonstances, j’aurais dès lors pu donner l’impression de voter contre un principe, ce que je ne voulais pas.
I therefore would not have had the opportunity to vote for the original text, which would have fallen in those circumstances, I could, therefore, have appeared to vote against a principle, and that I did not wish to do.