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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.