se fourvoyer

Nous pensons que la Commission s'est fourvoyée depuis son refus d'appliquer le règlement de 1991 à la date limite prévue, c'està-dire 1996.
We believe that the Commission has taken the wrong path since it refused to implement the regulation of 1991 at its due date of 1996.
Cette institution s'est fourvoyée et déshonorée en acceptant l'inacceptable : lyncher un de ses membres en faisant fi de tous les principes juridiques et des protections légales relatives aux immunités parlementaires actuellement en vigueur.
This institution is totally wrong and disgraced in accepting the unacceptable: lynching one of its members by flouting all the legal principles and legal protections relating to parliamentary immunity that are currently in force.
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