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.