In this way we can only add to the democratic legitimacy of the reform process.

That is where you find democratic legitimacy and respect for national conditions.

After all, this is the best guarantee for democratic legitimacy.

Yes, but who would have had democratic legitimacy after our latest elections?

You cannot play games with democratic legitimacy and the credibility of politics.

I did not in any sense concede the case for democratic legitimacy.

It has never really accepted the democratic legitimacy of that vote.

This is needed, the report said, "to maintain political and democratic legitimacy."

These changes in fact strengthen the democratic legitimacy of the Union's institutions.

The democratic legitimacy of the new service also depends on its composition.

This will again increase the democratic legitimacy of the important decisions to be taken on justice and home affairs issues.

I hope they will be accepted by the other institutions to give this process the democratic legitimacy it needs.

In this context more questions are being asked about the democratic legitimacy and control of the European institutions.

The role and democratic legitimacy of the latter should be reinforced.

This Parliament has no impressive, democratic legitimacy to begin with.

There are many actions that damage the democratic legitimacy of our institutions.

Today, the European project is abandoning any claim to democratic legitimacy.

And will his successor have the democratic legitimacy needed to govern?

So how do we provide the democratic legitimacy when we are all involved?

You mention the crisis of democratic legitimacy, which other speakers have taken up.

Such organisations have no democratic legitimacy whatsoever, and should not be given political responsibility of this kind.

Governments which use guns against their own citizens lose all democratic legitimacy.

As a result of this the group itself has yet to achieve any democratic legitimacy at the ballot box.

Making them calls for a competence and democratic legitimacy that Federal courts lack by design.

The government lacks any democratic legitimacy; power rests with the King and the army.