In this task, you are given a sentence in English and your task is to translate it into Spanish. In translation, keep the numbers and capitalization (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and name).

Q: The two identical-sounding questions which are under discussion are, of course, underpinned by a mantra of the kind which, in recent years, has increasingly transformed politics into a type of ideology - fine-sounding, but pernicious.

A: Las dos preguntas de igual tenor a debate están influidas por un mantra que estos años troca cada vez más la política en una especie de ideología -eufónica, pero perversa.
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Q: Since the author is not present, Question No 43 lapses.

A: Dado que su autor no está presente, la pregunta nº 43 decae.
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Q: Mr President, Commissioner, as a Member for the French Atlantic coast, for Vendée, I should first like to express the disgust of the people who are the victims of the Erika oil slick in the face of these disasters, caused not by a natural disaster such as the hurricane which has also just struck us, but by a crime.

A:
Señor Presidente, señora Comisaria, como representante de la costa atlántica francesa, representante de Vendée, quisiera expresar ante todo el sentimiento de rebelión de las poblaciones víctimas de la marea negra del Erika ante los desastres ocasionados no por una catástrofe natural como el huracán que acaba de golpearnos, sino por un delito.
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